Last round of Local Food Infrastructure Fund grants is opening on Aug 25

[Rhonda Teitel-Payne]

https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/programs/local-food-infrastructure-fund-small

The next intake period will be from August 25, 2025 to September 19, 2025.

The program ends on March 31, 2027.

The Local Food Infrastructure Fund (LFIF) supports projects that strengthen community food security and increase the availability and accessibility of local, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food through food production-focused activities for equity-deserving groups, particularly Indigenous and Black communities.

Program objectives

The LFIF aims to support locally-driven projects that will help improve community food security through the purchase and installation of infrastructure/equipment that will increase access to local, nutritious and culturally appropriate food.

Priority will be given to projects that predominantly serve equity-deserving groups, particularly those that are led by or focus on Indigenous and Black communities.

Small Scale Projects

• provides grant funding between $25,000 and $100,000
  
• supports projects that aim to address local food security priorities through the purchase and installation of one or a few pieces of infrastructure/equipment in a single community
  
  • projects must include a production element
    
• 2 application intake periods:
  
  • August 25, 2025 to September 19, 2025
    
• total funding of $23.5 million over 3 years starting in 2024-25
  

Rhonda Teitel-Payne (she/her)

Co-coordinator

Toronto Urban Growers

www.torontourbangrowers.org

@TOurbangrowers #iGrowTO

Celebrate Toronto-grown food and the people who grow it!

Toronto Urban Agriculture Week September 20-28​