Getting Grants for Farming: Meet Your Goals Using Federal or State Funding
Paradise Gardens and Farm LLC
Reynoldsville, Jefferson County
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
10am - 4pm
$15 PASA members, $25 all others; lunch is provided
Lucinda Hart-Gonzalez, Paradise Gardens and Farm LLC
Grants and grant assisted funding can be innovative ways to help make some changes and improvements to farms and processing facilities. Come see how different state and federal grants have helped one PASA farm, Paradise Gardens and Farm in Jefferson County, achieve some of its goals - rotational grazing for the goats, a sales shed for direct farm sales, and biggest of all: the conversion of the goat dairy and creamery and farm operations to all-solar-powered.
In the morning, we’ll tour the farm and see all the places where the grant moneys have had an impact. After lunch we’ll explore funding types and sources and interactively explore strategies of working with grants.
About the Presenter
Lucinda Hart-Gonzalez is small lady, but makes up for it in energy. Raised in the country, though not on a farm, she's most familiar with horse stables and forests. But now, she feels that she is home at last and has dived into gardening, livestock, dairy, and writing and updating the Paradise Gardens and Farm Organic Plan.
Formerly an academic director and collegiate professor, she now consults for Second Language Testing, Inc., working online so she can farm fulltime. Her expertise is languages and research methodology. In Washington, DC she worked for the State Department in its language school and was a multilingual actor in area stage and film. Lucinda believes in lifelong learning; she is studying soil science, botany, sustainability and renewable energy, the health and care of chickens and goats, the proteins of goat milk, and most especially cheese making! Lucinda cans, freezes, and dries the summer's bounty in fall, tries to keep the greenhouse in winter salad greens and in Spring works the beds and berries. She runs the creamery and marketing for Paradise Gardens and Farm.
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