Grower Grant Program

The Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers periodically awards funding to cut flower growers for on-farm research. Results of the research must aim to benefit specialty cut flower growers in the field or greenhouse. 

This program exists because a specialty cut flower farm relies on practical knowledge—knowledge that is often hard to find in

academic literature because our crops, our markets, and our production systems are too specific, too diverse, and too dynamic for most research institutions to keep up with. The people who know what growers need to know are growers. The Grower Grant program is how we fund that knowledge and get it into print. 

The program is open only to current ASCFG members who have grown cut flowers commercially for at least three years.

Grants ranging from $500 to $2000 may be awarded to qualified projects. Matching funds are encouraged. Half the grant payment will be made at the start of the project, with the balance paid after the successful completion of the research, as well as submission of a complete, coherent report for publication in The Cut Flower Quarterly.

We recommend prospective applicants review the Application Guide. 

Growers Helping Growers: The ASCFG Grower Grants in 2026

Casey Hansen Phloem Flower Farm Northern Vermont Reducing Plastic in Wholesale  Cut Flower Production

Maya Kosok Hillen Homestead Baltimore, Maryland Trialing Pre-Chilled Lisianthus for a Robust Fall Crop

Elizabeth Simpkins Riverside Gardens Flower Farm East Nashville, Tennessee Testing Fall Matthiola Field Production in Zone 7b

Grower Grant Reports are published in The Cut Flower Quarterly.

Read a recent report below.

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