Supporting the family farm, promoting conservation, and strengthening communities through sustainable agriculture strategies.
Explore our grantsWe are currently holding Calls for Proposals for 2026 Research and Education, Education, Professional Development Program, On-Farm Research, and Producer grants pending notification from our funding source, USDA-NIFA. You can check back for updates or subscribe to our mailing list to be notified when the Calls are released.
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2025 Graduate Student Grant Call for Proposals Open
Application deadline May 16, 2025 at 12 p.m. NOON EST
Adapting to Heatwaves and Hurricanes
At Southern Valley Fruit and Vegetable Farm, Kent Hamilton and his daughter Courtney Hamilton Griffin are doing more than growing produce—they’re creating a legacy of sustainability and innovation. In a new episode of America’s Heartland, produced in partnership with SARE, the Hamilton family shares how their Georgia farm is evolving to meet the growing challenges of heatwaves and intensifying storms.
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Farming Strategies for Adapting to Extreme Weather
SARE partnered with PBS KVIE to produce an episode of RFD-TV's America's Heartland that highlights how farmers and ranchers across the United States are using sustainable and regenerative practices to adapt to increasingly challenging and unpredictable weather conditions.
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Weed Ecology
Virginia Tech Research Provides Specifics on Tarping to Control Weeds
ROANOKE, Virginia – Farmers have long understood that tarping plots prior to planting can kill weeds, but how long it took for weeds to die under cover wasn’t completely known. Baseline research conducted by Virginia Cooperative Extension is providing some specifics. Funded by a Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SSARE) On-Farm Research Grant, Virginia […]
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The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program is a decentralized competitive grants and education program operating in every state and territory.
What is Sustainable Agriculture? Episode 1: A Whole-Farm Approach to Sustainability
Highlighting some common practices farmers and ranchers use to improve profitability, quality of life and environmental stewardship
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About Southern SARE
Southern SARE offers competitive grants and educational opportunities for producers, researchers, educators, institutions, organizations and others exploring sustainable agriculture in America's South, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
The most significant thing that came out of the project was that we received so many requests from farmers across Texas and western states like California asking for more information on tagasaste. This is a challenging area environmentally, and there are a lot of problems here that need to be solved. The SARE grant gave us a leg up in beginning to look for solutions.
