The Northeast SARE Farmer Grant program is calling for proposals.
The Northeast SARE Farmer Grant program provides funds to farmers to explore innovative concepts in sustainable agriculture conducted through experiments, surveys, prototypes, on-farm demonstrations or other research and education techniques. Farmer Grant projects must:
- Be led by a farmer who meets Northeast SARE’s definition of a farm
- Collaborate with a technical advisor.
- Impact both the farmer Project Leader and other farms in the region.
- Explore an innovative practice and/or introduce an existing practice to a new audience of farmers.
- Include outreach activities, or sharing of project impacts and results, to farmers beyond the project team and project participants.
- Align with proposal criteria
This grant program is open to farmers in the Northeast region.
- Approximately $800,000 has been allocated to fund projects
- Projects typically range from $5,000 to a maximum of $30,000
- Proposals are due no later than 5:00 p.m. EST on December 9, 2025
- Projects beginning in March 2026
- Must take place in Northeast (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.)
- Q&A Sessions are taking place from 12-1 p.m. EST on November 4, 11, 18, 25
View the call: https://northeast.sare.org/FarmerGrantCall
Register for Q&A Sessions: https://northeast.sare.org/FarmerGrantQA
Request Technical Assistance: https://northeast.sare.org/TAPRequest