Featured Grants

Check out these exciting funding opportunities below!

  • Mary Forstbauer Grant
    November 4th - December 4th , 2025
    Target Audience: vendors Amount: $500 Application Difficulty: beginner

    In honour of the late Mary Forstbauer, founding member and president of the BC Association of Farmers’ Markets (BCAFM), this $500 annual grant supports a farmer selling at BCAFM member farmers' markets. It can be used to implement a new initiative on your farm through supplies, training, new equipment, services, contractors, staff or consultants.

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  • BCAFM Inclusion Vendor Grant
    November 4th - December 4th , 2025
    Target Audience: vendors Amount: $500 Application Difficulty: beginner

    For farmers’ market vendor businesses who sell at BCAFM member farmers’ markets and who are owned by members of groups experiencing historical and/or current barriers to inclusion and equity. Funds can be used to strengthen or support the growth of your business through marketing, promotions, communications, equipment, supplies, training services, contractors, staff and consultants.

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  • Canada Summer Jobs Wage Subsidy
    November 4th - December 11th , 2025
    Target Audience: boards, community-partners, farmers-markets, vendors Amount: TBD Application Difficulty: intermediate

    Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) provides wage subsidies to employers from not-for-profit organizations, the public sector, and private sector organizations with 50 or fewer full-time employees, to create quality summer work experiences for young people aged 15 to 30 years.

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    • Knowledge and Technology Transfer Program
      March 19th , 2025
      Target Audience: boards, market-managers, vendors Amount: Up to $7,500 Application Difficulty: beginner

      KTTP is a cost-shared program designed to support B.C.’s producers and processors in adapting to changing environmental, production, and market conditions. The program helps drive innovation and long-term behavior change to strengthen B.C.’s agriculture and food sector by funding events and activities that foster practical knowledge and skill development. Farmers' markets can use this grant to fund a speaker attending their AGM or a workshop!

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    • Climate Agri-Solutions Fund
      April 1st , 2025
      Target Audience: vendors Amount: Up to $100,000 per farm Application Difficulty: beginner

      Supporting adoption and on-farm implementation of beneficial management practices in nitrogen management, cover cropping and rotational grazing in BC and the Yukon. The Climate Agri-Solutions Fund helps farmers implement these practices through cost-shared funding. The program also supports outreach, education and training to give farmers the opportunity to learn how these practices can effectively store carbon and reduce greenhouse gases on their farms.

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    • Mary Forstbauer Grant
      November 4th - December 4th , 2025
      Target Audience: vendors Amount: $500 Application Difficulty: beginner

      In honour of the late Mary Forstbauer, founding member and president of the BC Association of Farmers’ Markets (BCAFM), this $500 annual grant supports a farmer selling at BCAFM member farmers' markets. It can be used to implement a new initiative on your farm through supplies, training, new equipment, services, contractors, staff or consultants.

      BC General
      Learn More
    • BCAFM Inclusion Vendor Grant
      November 4th - December 4th , 2025
      Target Audience: vendors Amount: $500 Application Difficulty: beginner

      For farmers’ market vendor businesses who sell at BCAFM member farmers’ markets and who are owned by members of groups experiencing historical and/or current barriers to inclusion and equity. Funds can be used to strengthen or support the growth of your business through marketing, promotions, communications, equipment, supplies, training services, contractors, staff and consultants.

      BC General
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    • Canada Summer Jobs Wage Subsidy
      November 4th - December 11th , 2025
      Target Audience: boards, community-partners, farmers-markets, vendors Amount: TBD Application Difficulty: intermediate

      Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) provides wage subsidies to employers from not-for-profit organizations, the public sector, and private sector organizations with 50 or fewer full-time employees, to create quality summer work experiences for young people aged 15 to 30 years.

      BC General
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