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ARI FUND

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ARI Fund

The ARI Fund is a pilot program that connects our urban and rural agriculture communities to grocers and food service businesses while providing financial incentives and technical/financial planning support programs to small farms in SWPA. The ARI fund pilot is funded in part by a Small and Mighty Grant from The Pittsburgh Foundation.

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Farmer Incentive Program

Our farmer incentive program provides an additional percentage over wholesale to the small urban and rural farms with whom we partner. This funding allows farmers to offset losses they incure selling the bulk of what they produce at comodity pricing.

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Technicial/Financial Planning Support

We assist small farms and food producers with an array of low and no cost technical and financial planning support services including grant writing assistance, budgets, and website/media design.

ARI HuB

The ARI HuB is a pilot program that connects our urban and rural agriculture communities to grocers and food service businesses while providing financial incentives and technical/financial planning support programs to small farms in SWPA. The ARI fund pilot is funded in part by a Small and Mighty Grant from The Pittsburgh Foundation.

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