2003 Sustainable Agriculture Transition Program

Tobacco farming has shaped the landscape and culture of western North Carolina for over a century. Due to policy changes and lowered tobacco quotas, farmers are looking to new crops and techniques to continue to profitably farm. Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, through a grant from the North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund Commission, is looking for innovative farm projects that can help individual farmers make the successful transition to a diversified and profitable farming operation and can be used as models for other farming operations.

Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project will make awards of $5,000 to ten farm operations in each of the next two years (2003-2004) for a total of twenty grants and a total project grant of $100,000. These grants are exclusively for farmers that are currently engaged in the production of tobacco. The grants will be awarded to farmer projects that show innovation and can serve as models for other farmers. These grants can not be used to pay off existing debt. These grants can not be used for conventional tobacco production. Farm operations must be in one or more of the following counties only: Buncombe, Haywood, Madison, and/or Yancey.

Farmers who are awarded grants can expect marketing support and mentoring through the network established over the last five years through the ASAP Transition Program.

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