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Advisory board agrees to design $500,000 pilot grant for farm and forest programs
Summary
Advisory board members agreed by consensus to focus their next meeting on designing a $500,000 pilot grant program for agriculture and forestry infrastructure and capacity, with staff to bring options on grant tiers, down‑payment match tools and technical assistance.
The advisory board to the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry voted unanimously earlier to add a second co‑chair and then spent the bulk of its meeting shaping how to use a $500,000 pilot allocation for the Farm & Forest Investment Fund (FFIF).
Lily Kenny, the fund coordinator, described options for using the money and recommended a cautious, iterative approach. "We do have 500,000 that is currently available for us now," Kenny said, noting that the sum is unlikely to support a full revolving loan fund…
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