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CopyCarissa McKenzie, Alta Vista, has been awarded a $5,989 grant from the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (NCR-SARE), for a project, "Connecting Farmer to Consumer Through Small Business of Rural Main Street." The grant was awarded as part of NCR-SARE's Farmer Rancher Grant Program.
It is one of 46 projects selected this year for funding in a 12-state region. The NCR-SARE began a competitive grant program in 1992, exclusively to fund producers striving for agriculture sustainability.
Every farmer and rancher will use the funding to implement a sustainable farm project. Up to $6,000 can be awarded to individual farmers and up to $ 18,000 for groups of three or more farmers.
Funding considerations are made based on how well the applicant articulates the nature of the research and education components of their sustainable agriculture grant proposals.
Since 1988, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's NCR-SARE program has awarded more than $40 million in competitive grants to farmers, and ranchers, researchers, education, public and private institutions, nonprofit groups, and others exploring sustainable agriculture in 12 states.
Additional information is avail-able on the web at: www.sare.org/ncrsare @unm.edu.
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