Farm Grants, Loans, & Financial Tools

Описание: CULTIVATING BEST HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES ON SMALL & MID-SCALE FARMS
HR Training: Farm Grants, Loans, & Financial Tools
Monday, January 26, 2025 7-9pm
Featuring: Fianna Dirks, Jacqueline Dwyer, Tina Gokstorp

Is there a government or non-profit grant, loan, or financial tool to help support your farm business, protect your property’s natural heritage, or help you meet your HR needs? Learn about a variety of financial supports and receive grant writing tips from our Farm Finance Mentors!

Jacqueline Dwyer (MES) is a farmer and community food planner with a background in equitable food access, climate solutions and environment, renewable energy, cultural food export and import and more. Jacqueline is a co-founding member, farmer and food advocate at Toronto Black Farmers and Growers Collective, and holds a Master of Environmental Studies from York University.

Fianna Dirks has been working as a farmer for the last 15 years focusing on organic growing, on-farm compost production, beneficial insect habitat creation, and is the Co-Owner of It's Giving Farm. They are extremely passionate about literally almost everything and get immense joy from sharing this abundance of excitement with anyone around her. When not ogling over the micro universes of soil microbes and insects, they are usually reading Sci-Fi, elbow-deep in a sourdough starter, or on the hunt for a sequin outfit.

Tina is an award-winning entrepreneur with a corporate background in the telecommunications and technology industry. Over the last 10 years or so, she has shifted to a more purpose and meaning driven career path in the agriculture sector. Tina is the owner and founder of Good Food Farms, a farm to table business focused on value added products that meet a consumer demand for convenience and value and also meet Tina's passion for quality and nutritionally dense foods. Tina is passionate about creating consumer awareness of how and where food comes from and has a personal interest in seeing more diversity in the agriculture sector. Through her business she has committed to mentorship of more women and girls in leadership and ownership positions within the agriculture sector.

This project is funded in part by the Governments of Canada and Ontario under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership, a federal-provincial-territorial initiative.