Q&A Call: Savor the Season Cost-Share and Mini-Grant 

Interested in opportunities to fire-up customers to purchase more Kansas-grown fruits and vegetables at your market?

If your market needs a little assistance to develop a produce-focused event, you'll want to learn more about the Savor the Season Mini-Grant program.

And if your market has an established promotions budget, the Savor the Season Cost-Share will helps stretch those precious special event dollars!

Please join us for a toll-free call on Monday, January 30 at 7:30 p.m. for brief overviews of the Savor the Season program and the two associated funding opportunities.

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Funding Available to Farmers Markets to Assist with Promotional Activities

KRC is accepting both mini-grant and cost-share proposals from markets. The application deadline for both programs is March 15.

Mini-Grants: Markets can submit applications requesting up to $250 in funds to support specialty crop promotions. This program is targeted to smaller or new markets interested in testing a special event program. Total available funding is $2,000. Application information can be found on here on the ksfarmersmarkets.org site.

Cost-Shares: Markets can submit applications requesting up to $400 in matching funds to support specialty crop promotions. This program is targeted to markets with existing special event programs. Total available funding is $2,100. Application information can be found on here on the ksfarmersmarkets.org site.

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Savor the Season Program Overview
Is your market looking for a recipe to turn up the burner on sales of your vendors' fruits and vegetables?
KRC may have the secret ingredient!
Savor the Season is a specialty crop promotion project that seeks to increase the consumption of ten fruits and vegetables through attractive and informative produce cards and additional supporting materials.
To learn more about the Savor the Season program and to sign-up, click here.