With funding provided by the City of Dallas Office of Environmental Quality and Sustainability (OEQS) and in alignment with the City’s Comprehensive Environmental and Climate Action Plan Goal 7: "All Dallas Communities Have Access to Healthy Local Food," the projects will use enhanced infrastructure to focus on expanding productive acreage, sustainable land stewardship practices, water conservation, and utilizing solar to power onsite cold storage, pumps, and lights where needed. Projects at large are in areas facing challenges around nutrition and diet-related health disparities. 

“Expanded access to healthy, locally grown foods that promote health and well-being have been shown to reduce diet-related disease, increase community resiliency, have a direct impact on farmer livelihoods and local economies where the dollar can circulate longer before leaving the Dallas community economy,” said Rabekha Siebert, City of Dallas’ Comprehensive Urban Agriculture Plan manager. “When we invest in our local agriculture infrastructure, we are strengthening the network to reach more residents, so that ‘All Dallas Residents Have Access to Healthy Local Food".  

Of the 14 awardees, there are community farms/gardens, multi-family low-income housing, for-profit CSA’s, Houses of Worship, school growing sites, and secondary education. The program includes: Feed the Streetz Outreach, Oak Cliff Veggie Project, Dallas Half Acre Farm, Elmwood Farm, Paul Quinn College, Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters, Reshell Friels Farm, Joppy Momma’s Farm, and Temple Emanu-El.  

Second round of funding of the Urban Agriculture Infrastructure Grant will be released summer 2025.