Green Seed Fund

LifeCycles works to build the capacity of individual, partnership, and cooperative ventures that contribute to the vibrancy and health of communities, the environment, local food systems and our local economy. Working together with VanCity, we have established the Green Seed Fund as a means to support local entrepreneurial ideas and initiatives and promote local agriculture.

Purpose of the fund:

The Green Seed Fund has been created to seed, enhance and support community economic development initiatives in the following key focus areas:

Green business
Food and agriculture enterprises
Cooperative initiatives

Who can apply:

The Green Seed Fund is available to individuals, groups, businesses, cooperatives, and organizations operating in the Capital Region.

Funding terms:

The fund will be accepting applications for requests between $100 and $500. This fund prioritizes equipment/materials purchase, training, mentorship, and facilitation of collaboration and networking within the region. It does not pay for ongoing expenses, or servicing debt. The project or purchase is to be completed by December 2007.

What the Fund has supported in the past:

In the past two years the Green Seed Fund has supported over 20 individuals in the following ways:

Purchase of Tools
Greenhouse construction, expansion or upgrade (materials for construction and addition of irrigation equipment such as drip tape and overhead irrigation)
Irrigation equipment for fields
Bee hive/equipment
Build marketing capacity -development of website and marketing materials, purchase of a computer
Infrastructure for Seed saving
Farmer's Market start up support purchase of tents and tables
Soil Amendments
Purchase of small garden shed to store tools and equipment.
Fencing to assist with transition to Certified IOPA Standard, support certification transition through replacement of for construction of Greenhouse

Chicken raising materials and supplies and construction of chicken tractors
Support cooperative marketing through purchase of tent, table and market signs

Deadlines and Forms

The guidelines and the application form will help you with your application.

Click here to download the Guildlines and Application form

The deadline for applications this year is 4 pm March 23, 2007

For more info on the Green Seed Fund please contact Linda at Lifecycles

383-5800 - Tuesdays and Thursdays or email me at linda@gworks.ca