Growing Grant County Fund
Growing Grant County is a collaborative partnership that combines education, meat and vegetable processing, food production, and philanthropy to bolster the availability of local food to communities.
Exciting upgrades are coming! We’re enhancing our site to better serve you. The donation form will be unavailable on March 10, 2026, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. CST. Thank you for your understanding.
To comply with bank requirements and prevent delays in deposits, all checks must be issued to West Central Initiative, with “Growing Grant County Fund” in your check’s memo field.
Credit card payments will list West Central Initiative as the merchant on your bill but by using this donation page, your donation will be given to the Growing Grant County Fund.
Designating West Central Initiative as the payee ensures that the Internal Revenue Service recognizes your tax-deductible contribution.
Exciting upgrades are coming! We’re enhancing our site to better serve you. The form will be unavailable on March 10, 2026, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. CST. Thank you for your understanding.
Through a partnership between the West Central Area and Ashby School Districts, local food shelves, and very supportive agriculturally based communities, the Growing Grant County project will build a system of collaboration to:
•Grow more local food.
•Provide training to students in the art of meat butchering and processing.
•Support Grant County food shelves by increasing donations of fresh food.
•Create a more sustainable and resilient food system.
Goals and objectives
•Increase the production of nutritious food available in Grant County.
•Increase the amount of food that is grown and produced in Grant County that is available to residents who are food insecure.
•Increase shelf life of food available in Grant County.
•Decrease food waste.
•Create systems of sale to both increase access to healthy foods and create program income to sustain efforts.
•Educate youth on food systems and encourage food entrepreneurism and agribusiness.
•Provide new, local market opportunities to farmers, growers, and ranchers in and around Grant County by selling their products to food shelves using the student-operated mobile food-processing trailer.
•Leverage opportunities within and outside the region for the improvement of the region’s economic vitality and quality of life for its residents.
Learn more by viewing the Growing Grant County Brochure.
