All grantees will be required to track, retain, and be able, if requested, to submit all records and/or grant funding expenditures.
Grantees will be required to cooperate with the CCOF Foundation to provide information related, but not limited to certification, acreage, crops, land mapping, and organic transition plans.
Allowable Costs:
- Organic livestock, poultry, and related expenses, such as animal health management required by organic standards;
- Organic feed;
- Educational materials, training on organic certification and production, or meeting attendance, in addition to services offered by CCOF;
- Inspection and certification fees;
- On-farm water or soil testing fees;
- Outside consultant fees if desired, as for development of an Organic System Plan (OSP);
- Farming supplies to be applied to organic farming on the transitioning acres, such as organic-approved plastic mulch;
- Farm equipment and repair to that equipment, where equipment is specific or widely preferred for organic farming of the type expected to occur on the transitioning acres. Qualifying equipment must be drawn from the following list:
- Compost production, storage or spreading installations and equipment;
- Weed management tools such as flamers or tines, tarps, row cover;
- Transplanting or direct seeding equipment;
- Intercropping equipment and modifications;
- IPM-aligned equipment;
- Other cover-cropping equipment;
- On-farm processing and distribution equipment (e.g., peelers, coolers, produce washing, sorting and sizing bins, refrigerated vehicles for transporting whole or minimally processed food) where it is applicable to the products expected from transitioning acres.
- Organic seeds and starts, including cover crop seeds;
- Organic fertilizers;
- Organic pest control inputs;
- Ecosystem enhancement supplies and equipment (e.g., hedgerows, owl boxes, riparian area protection);
- Compost, compost building materials, and similar organic amendments;
- “Custom farming” operations (e.g., contracting out to perform planting)
Unallowable Costs:
- Property or land rent or lease;
- Taxes;
- Owner or employee labor;
- Inputs for land outside the defined transitioning field(s), or for animals not dependent on the transitioning field(s).
