RAFI Announces 2018 Agricultural Reinvestment Fund Grant Recipients

      Posted On: March 30, 2018

Congratulations to the 2018 Agricultural Reinvestment Fund grant recipients! RAFI and Jeff Camden, Program Officer with the Tobacco Trust Fund Commission, announced the 2018 ARF grant winners during an Award Ceremony and Orientation at the Dan Pollitt Center in Pittsboro, NC. Grants were awarded to assist entrepreneurial and innovative farmers and collaborative groups in developing new sources of agricultural income.

This year, 26 grants were awarded, with 23 grants going to individual farmer projects and three grants going to collaborative farmer groups. Of the recipients, nearly half are Beginning Farmers.