Future Harvest - CASA

Summer 2018 Grants

Food System Reform Program

$205,000

Cockeysville, MD

www.futureharvestcasa.org

Project funding for work on the Eastern Shore to train, connect, and create opportunities for resource sharing and leadership development for its network of sustainable farmers, to expand the capacity of its Delmarva programs through strategic planning and partnership development, and to facilitate development of a regional healthy soils initiative.

Spring 2018 Grants

Food System Reform Program

$5,000

Cockeysville, MD

www.futureharvestcasa.org

Interim grant to cover costs to send a delegation of Chesapeake Region farmers to USDA’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education 2018 Conference.

Summer 2017 Grants

Food System Reform Program

$114,000

Cockeysville, MD

http://www.futureharvestcasa.org/

For its Eastern Shore program to support training, connectivity, and resource sharing for its network of sustainable farmers to build the supply of sustainably grown food, communications to raise awareness on the Eastern Shore about sustainable farming, healthy soils, and community benefits, and continue policy and coalition building work to advance and institutionalize healthy soils initiatives.

Summer 2016 Grants

Food System Reform Program

$100,000

Cockeysville, MD

www.futureharvestcasa.org

to support their Eastern Shore program building a network of environmentally sustainable farmers.

Summer 2015 Grants

Sustainability Program

$100,000

Cockeysville, MD

www.futureharvestcasa.org

funding to assess the need for and, where appropriate, start implementation of robust and targeted farmer and buyer education and networking programming on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Sustainability Program

$150,000

Cockeysville, MD

www.futureharvestcasa.org

to continue development of the Chesapeake Foodshed Network.

Summer 2014 Grants

Sustainability Program

$60,000

Cockeysville, MD

www.futureharvestcasa.org

For general support and to secure capacity building support.

Summer 2013 Grants

Sustainability Program

$100,000

Cockeysville, MD

www.futureharvestcasa.org

$25,000 towards general support and $75,000 towards the Foodshed Network project.  Future Harvest-CASA (FH-CASA) will continue cultivating a network of agricultural professionals in the Chesapeake Watershed using sustainable practices.  FH-CASA will provide farmer education programs and advocate on issues with implications for local family farms.  FH-CASA will also continue the development of the Chesapeake Regional Foodshed Initiative which will develop a local and sustainable regional food system vision.

Summer 2012 Grants

Sustainability Program

$75,000

Cockeysville, MD

www.futureharvestcasa.org

general support for sustainable farming education and advocacy work and project support for its Food Shed Initative, involving a feasibility study for conducting regional food system vision.

Summer 2011 Grants

Promoting Policies and Practices for Sustainability

$50,000

Fairplay, Maryland

www.futureharvestcasa.org

general support funds to grow current activity of promoting sustainable food and farming through farmer education, partnership development, and market development for sustainable farmers; and to grow consumer education on the region’s food-shed and local food system.