Featured Grants

Check out these exciting funding opportunities below!

  • HR for BC Agriculture
    August 3rd , 2026
    Target Audience: vendors Application Difficulty: beginner

    Explore free tools and support developed to help BC agriculture employers. Whether you’re hiring seasonal workers, onboarding new team members, or navigating employment regulations, these resources can help.

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  • Mary Forstbauer Grant
    November 3rd - December 3rd , 2026
    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 3rd - December 3rd , 2026
    Target Audience: vendors Amount: $250 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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    • Knowledge and Technology Transfer Program
      March 4th , 2026
      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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    • HR for BC Agriculture
      August 3rd , 2026
      Target Audience: vendors Application Difficulty: beginner

      Explore free tools and support developed to help BC agriculture employers. Whether you’re hiring seasonal workers, onboarding new team members, or navigating employment regulations, these resources can help.

      BC General
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    • Advance Payments Program
      September 16th , 2026
      Target Audience: vendors Application Difficulty: advanced

      Provides low-interest cash advances on the value of eligible agricultural products, which must be repaid as the products are sold.

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    • Mary Forstbauer Grant
      November 3rd - December 3rd , 2026
      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
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    • BCAFM Inclusion Vendor Grant
      November 3rd - December 3rd , 2026
      Target Audience: vendors Amount: $250 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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