Value
Maximum of $20,000Description
LEADS – Riparian Buffer Strips program was designed for producers farming alongside streams, drains, rivers, ponds, wetlands and/or lakes seeking to establish permanently vegetated buffer strips immediately adjacent to the riparian zones.
Eligible Applicants
Producers who:
- Verified, 4th Edition Environmental Farm Plan
- Proposed project located within the Lake Erie or Lake St. Clair watersheds
- Completed Farmland Health Check-Up, working with a participating certified crop advisor or professional agrologist
- Provide a site sketch (hand-drawn or computer-generated) or AgMaps output showing the project location
Eligible Expenses
- Site preparation
- Seeding field margins within or adjacent to riparian areas that were cropped within the past two years to permanent vegetative cover
- Buffer strips shall be a minimum of three metres in width from top of bank
- Purchase and planting of native or non-invasive introduced species of trees, shrubs, grasses, legumes or wildflowers to stabilize riparian zones
- Tree species and planting techniques should adhere to practices that would typically be advocated by a professional forester
- Total eligible costs for tree purchase and planting is capped at $50 per tree
- Tree guards
- Mulch
- Weed control systems
- In-kind contributions
Deadline Date
Please click the link indicated below for update.Contact
Contact Name: Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Phone Number: 1-877-424-1300
E-mail Address: ag.info.omafra@ontario.ca
