Funding for growers.

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EQIP (NRCS cost-share)

Funding program

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  • Free

The Environmental Quality Incentives Program: cost-share for conservation practices including high tunnels, irrigation efficiency, and cover crops. Your NRCS field office is the front door.

The program that has paid for thousands of small growers' first high tunnel.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Farm Credit

Organization

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  • Free

The nationwide network of borrower-owned agricultural lenders, chartered a century ago for exactly this.

Ag-literate lending when you outgrow the microloan.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

FSA farm loans and microloans

Funding program

  • Active
  • Free

The Farm Service Agency lends where banks often will not: streamlined microloans for a market garden or first season, and beginning-farmer loans that lower the bar.

Capital designed for exactly the farm the banks call too small.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Grants.gov

Dataset

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Every federal grant opportunity in one searchable place, with open data behind it. The agency field office is usually the better first call, but this is the master list.

The complete federal funding firehose, filterable.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Kiva US small-business loans

Funding program

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  • Free

Zero-percent, crowdfunded small-business loans up to fifteen thousand dollars, and farms qualify.

Interest-free starter capital backed by people rooting for you.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

REAP energy grants

Funding program

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  • Free
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The Rural Energy for America Program funds renewable energy and efficiency: solar, better greenhouse glazing, efficient equipment.

Federal help paying for the solar array or the efficient upgrade you were pricing anyway.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

SARE farmer grants

Funding program

  • Active
  • Free

The grants a farmer can apply for directly: ten to thirty thousand dollars to run a real experiment on your own operation, through your SARE region.

Paid to answer your own question, and your results join the public library.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Specialty Crop Block Grants

Funding program

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  • Free

Federal money that flows through each state's department of agriculture specifically for fruit, vegetable, and specialty crop projects.

Your state ag department's pot for specialty crops; watch their annual call.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026