by Carl BR Johnson
May 9, 2013
A $50,000 grant is being offered to anyone who raises awareness in their rural community about local agriculture.
“We’re looking for community innovation,” said Doug Anderson, president of Peavey Industries, parent company of the Peavey Mart retail chain, the business offering the grant.
“That innovation could be focused on local agriculture or food supply, or innovation in the wider area of community development.”
The grant is zeroing in on one or more individuals or non-profit organizations that proposes projects with clear benefits to their community and its agriculture.
The primary criterion is that the interested parties needs to be within a 200-kilometer radius of any Peavey Mart store.
Peavey Mart’s primary goal with this grant is to help local communities become self-reliant on their agricultural needs.
“Rebuilding local food systems will also rebuild local communities,” said Michele Aasgard, executive director of Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA), which will be reviewing all applications submitted.
“We believe this grant will be one tool to help people and communities re-engage with their food, and re-engage with each other.”
This is the debut year of this grant and Peavey Mart hopes to keep this as an annual event.
“Farming has grown from farms to feed families to become mechanized, modernized, and globalized. Yet some aspects of agriculture have come back full circle, to producing and consuming healthy locally grown food,” stated Peavey Mart.
“These days, people are choosing to invest in local food production. Many suppliers are striving to offer high quality or value added agricultural goods produced locally, by local hands and with local ingenuity. We have the resources to take care of ourselves.
“This kind of thinking applies in a wider sense to communities, which have also changed over the decades. These days, we know a lot of the old ways are worth keeping, and cherishing, and developing with care, to keep benefits in the local community.
That is our mission, to help you to strengthen your rural area, town or city. To help it flourish, with local initiatives that provide quality of life and livelihood. To help communities support good ideas that keep them healthy and strong.
The heart of the intent of the grant is to demonstrate how the community is being directly affected by the production and usage of any kind of agricultural product – whether it be the grocer, to the truck driver all the way to the consumer who buys that product.
Aasgard reiterated that any winning applications would require a business plan, budget and letters of support.
So far, her office has received no applications, so the grant is still wide open to anyone.
Interested parties would need to have their application filed by June 30, 2013.
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