Value
Maximum of $10,000Description
Producer – Riparian Buffer Strips supports 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 completed:
- A verified, 4th Edition Environmental Farm Plan
- A site sketch (hand-drawn or computer-generated) or AgMaps output showing the proposed project location
Eligible Expenses
- Site preparation
- Seeding field margins within or adjacent to riparian areas, and 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
