2026 SLC Food Microgrant Awardees
In 2026, one hundred and two (102) individual residents or households were awarded $250 each to support their own home food production efforts such as vegetable and herb gardens, fruit trees, food preservation, backyard chickens, and beekeeping.
Additionally, Community Grants were awarded to ten (10) community groups engaged in projects that address one or more of the grant priority categories: growing food, inclusive outreach, dignified food access, and healthy food environments.
See below for a list of Community Grant recipients and a brief
description of what they each will use the funding for.
Community Grant Awardees
Albert’s Produce
Grant Category: Growing Food
Primary Location(s): Salt Lake City
Organization: Albert Betoudji arrived in the United States as a refugee from Chad in 2010. He began farming the same year he arrived, and has continued growing food in Salt Lake City ever since. For many years he farmed simply to provide for him and his family, but in recent years he has been growing more food and selling his produce at the New Roots farmers market during the market season.
Project: He wants to expand his growing capacity so he can bring more fresh, locally grown food to the market each week.
Allred Greens Family Farm
Grant Category: Growing Food
Primary Location(s): Salt Lake City
Organization: Allred Greens Family Farm is a local organic urban farm owned and operated by 2 women in its first season. Their mission is to grow a variety of quality organic produce for the folks who don’t have access, especially folks at The Point and their sister communities.
Project: They are focusing on getting the farm up and running this year. They will be sustainably growing produce for multiple organizations, the Wasatch Food Co-op and peppers for Salsa de Diablo.
Community Health Centers, Inc. – Rose Park Garden Clinic
Grant Category: Growing Food
Primary Location(s): Rose Park
Organization: Community Health Centers, Inc. (CHC) is a non-profit comprised of 7 clinics across the Salt Lake Valley. The Rose Park Garden Clinic is a federally qualified health center (FQHC), established to provide health care to the most vulnerable, uninsured and underinsured populations.
Project: They will be improving their clinic’s garden infrastructure including installing driplines for water conservation and installing garden beds that are kid-height. They will also be expanding their communications and coordination for their community members.
International Rescue Committee’s New Roots Program
Grant Category: Growing Food
Primary Location(s): Glendale
Organization: The New Roots Program operates through four integrated pillars: community gardening, the farm incubator program, food access and farmers markets, and the YALL (Youth, Agriculture, Livestock, and Leadership) program. Together, these pillars promote food security, strengthen local food systems, and create opportunities for refugee and new American farmers to thrive as entrepreneurs and community leaders.
Project: New Roots will activate and fully develop a half-acre of agricultural production space at Glendale Farm in partnership with Salt Lake City and Wasatch Community Gardens. This project will transform remediated land into a productive, accessible, and culturally relevant farming site where refugee and new American families can grow, harvest, wash, and store fresh produce.
New Seed Farmers
Grant Category: Growing Food
Primary Location(s): Glendale
Organization: New Seed Farmers is a grassroots collective of New American Muslim mothers dedicated to reclaiming their agricultural heritage. Their mission is to foster community self-reliance by growing culturally significant food, preserving traditional farming knowledge, and teaching the next generation of Salt Lake City residents how to achieve holistic economic independence through the land.
Project: New Seed Farmers will secure six dedicated garden plots at the New Roots Glendale Farm where they will use the Full-Circle Farming model that ensures long-term food security and independence. In addition to growing food they will establish a surplus produce pipeline to Salt Lake City mosques and offer monthly “learning days” where mothers can mentor 20+ youth in traditional planting, harvesting, and seed-saving techniques.
Rose Park Bee Club
Grant Category: Growing Food
Primary Location(s): Rose Park, Fairpark and Glendale
Organization: Rose Park Bee Club was formed to make beekeeping and high-quality honey available to the community for free.
Project: They will offer 22 classes over the course of the summer and fall to their community on beekeeping and honey harvesting using shared hives that are distributed throughout Rose Park, Fairpark and Glendale. They will also host a 2026 Honey Party where folks can share in the honey harvest and excess produce of local gardeners in the community.
University of Utah Center for Community Nutrition: Food, Movement, and You
Grant Category: Dignified Food Choices
Primary Location(s): Salt Lake City
Organization: The University of Utah Center for Community Nutrition (UCCN) aims to provide targeted nutrition education and diabetes prevention programming for those at highest risk of diet-related diseases such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. UCCN aims to prevent these diseases and promote healthful practices among underserved and underrepresented community members through deeply embedding in community contexts and collaborating with community-based organizations. Food, Movement, and You (FMU) is one of UCCN’s community-engaged applied research projects.
Project: They have three primary aims for their project, which are to 1) provide seasonal income to a mother who has transitioned out of homelessness to run the Palmer Court community garden, 2) purchase organically grown produce from a newly established urban family farm run by a mother who has also transitioned out of homelessness and 3) provide free local organic produce to Salt Lake residents who are or have experienced homelessness.
University of Utah Farmers Market
Grant Category: Healthy Food Environments
Primary Location(s): University of Utah Campus
Organization: U of U Farmers Market serves to connect the campus community to the resources and services needed to make healthy food choices and sustainable, financially accessible purchases. The Farmers Market increases access to local food by bringing local growers, makers, crafters, bakers, and other vendors to the University of Utah campus, strengthening community connections and creating a sense of belonging for all participants in the Market.
Project: They will be providing transportation, guaranteed purchases, and financial support to New Roots farmers from the International Rescue Committee’s New Roots program who are participating in the farmers market.
Utah Pacific Islander Health Coalition
Grant Category: Growing Food
Primary Location(s): Rose Park, Glendale, and Fairpark
Organization: The mission of the Utah Pacific Islander Health Coalition is to reduce health disparities and increase access to affordable and culturally responsive wellness services for Utah Pacific Islanders.
Project: Their project will expand household gardening and small-scale urban farming (centered on vegetable staples of the indigenous Polynesian diet) with the objective of improving dietary nutrition, increasing physical activity, and promoting mental well-being through culturally supportive engagement.
WasteLess Solutions
Grant Category: Dignified Food Choices
Primary Location(s): Salt Lake City
Organization: WasteLess Solutions aims to reduce food waste in Utah through education, prevention and diversion. They envision a community that works together to provide sustenance and promote a healthy planet by preventing edible food waste.
Project: Their project will transforming healthy rescued surplus food into fully prepared, nutritious family meals for low-income families which they then deliver through their mobile markets.