NOTE: To Access The Application make sure you are logged in! Go up to the right hand corner to log in or Register to create a new account. Then you should see a green button on the right that says "Check Eligibility."
About the Program
For the last four years, the National Young Farmers Coalition (Young Farmers) has partnered with Chipotle to support young and beginning farmers and ranchers start up and grow their businesses with a flexible funding opportunity each spring. The program provided 50 farmers and ranchers with $5,000 each in the spring of 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Grant recipients also received a one-year membership to the National Young Farmers Coalition.
In our fifth and final year of the program, we will be offering 50 grants to a new cohort of young farmers and ranchers in 2024.
This year, forty-five awards will go to businesses already in operation, and five to farm and ranch operations starting up in 2024. Our grant program is available to support farmers and ranchers in Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands, in addition to the 50 states and Washington D.C.
Applications are open until January 15, 2024 at 3pm Eastern time. We do not accept late applications for any reason.
What can a Young Farmer Grant do?
Young Farmer Grants are designed to provide a flexible financial boost to young farmers building long term careers in agriculture. This fund can be used for anything that will further your goals as a farmer, even if that means just getting started. The goal of this fund is to provide financial assistance for any cost that currently limits your ability to start, run, or grow your operation in the way you’d like.
Grant funding may support completing a project, purchasing a new piece of equipment, covering operating costs such as seeds and compost, building new infrastructure, attending a farmer training program or conference, hiring additional farm labor, or covering personal finances that stand in the way of farm success, including but not limited to childcare, housing, or student loan payments. Funds, once awarded, may be used to match other grant opportunities.
These grants are available to farmers of all races and gender identities. To ensure that our grants are contributing to ending inequity in access to agricultural careers, we commit to providing a minimum of 50% of our grants to Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, and 50% of grants to female-identifying, non-binary, and trans farmers. These are not mutually exclusive identity categories and should not be understood as adding up to 100% of available grants.
If you have any questions please reach out to em@youngfarmers.org. We are unable to offer support by phone.
2024 Young Farmer Grant Program
NOTE: To Access The Application make sure you are logged in! Go up to the right hand corner to log in or Register to create a new account. Then you should see a green button on the right that says "Check Eligibility."
About the Program
For the last four years, the National Young Farmers Coalition (Young Farmers) has partnered with Chipotle to support young and beginning farmers and ranchers start up and grow their businesses with a flexible funding opportunity each spring. The program provided 50 farmers and ranchers with $5,000 each in the spring of 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Grant recipients also received a one-year membership to the National Young Farmers Coalition.
In our fifth and final year of the program, we will be offering 50 grants to a new cohort of young farmers and ranchers in 2024.
This year, forty-five awards will go to businesses already in operation, and five to farm and ranch operations starting up in 2024. Our grant program is available to support farmers and ranchers in Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands, in addition to the 50 states and Washington D.C.
Applications are open until January 15, 2024 at 3pm Eastern time. We do not accept late applications for any reason.
What can a Young Farmer Grant do?
Young Farmer Grants are designed to provide a flexible financial boost to young farmers building long term careers in agriculture. This fund can be used for anything that will further your goals as a farmer, even if that means just getting started. The goal of this fund is to provide financial assistance for any cost that currently limits your ability to start, run, or grow your operation in the way you’d like.
Grant funding may support completing a project, purchasing a new piece of equipment, covering operating costs such as seeds and compost, building new infrastructure, attending a farmer training program or conference, hiring additional farm labor, or covering personal finances that stand in the way of farm success, including but not limited to childcare, housing, or student loan payments. Funds, once awarded, may be used to match other grant opportunities.
These grants are available to farmers of all races and gender identities. To ensure that our grants are contributing to ending inequity in access to agricultural careers, we commit to providing a minimum of 50% of our grants to Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, and 50% of grants to female-identifying, non-binary, and trans farmers. These are not mutually exclusive identity categories and should not be understood as adding up to 100% of available grants.
If you have any questions please reach out to em@youngfarmers.org. We are unable to offer support by phone.