Database: List of Local Food Infrastructure Fund projects (Large Scale Projects intake)
Backgrounder
On March X, 2026, the Government of Canada announced X projects under the Large Scale Projects intake of the Local Food Infrastructure Fund (LFIF), valued at a total of $X.
Use the table below to search for LFIF projects.
| Organization | Town/City | Province/ Territory |
Project description |
AAFC Funding (up to) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abegweit First Nation | Abegweit First Nation | Prince Edward Island | Purchase a cargo van, a walk in freezer, an industrial dishwasher, a freeze dryer, vacuum sealers, a smoker, raised garden beds, an irrigation system, gardening tools, industrial fans, food preservation equipment, cookware, shelving and storage, coolers, tables and chairs. | $137,978 |
| Aboriginal Labour Force Development Circle Inc. | Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory | Ontario | Purchase a hydroponic farm, processing hub, and cold storage to establish food production and food sovereignty. | $398,999 |
| Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation | Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation | Ontario | Purchase a greenhouse with a concrete slab and HVAC, raised garden beds, seeds and soil, a dehydrator, a knife kit, an upright freezer and storage boxes. | $253,583 |
| Association of High Prairie and District Childrens' Resource Council | High Prairie | Alberta | Purchase a hydroponic farm and cold storage to increase food production. | $252,668 |
| Bande de la Innu Nation of Matimekush-Lac John | Matimekush | Quebec | Establish local horticultural production with the purchase of a four-season greenhouse. | $469,689 |
| Canadian Black Farmers Association | Surrey | British Columbia | Purchase a tractor and a greenhouse. | $313,461 |
| Centre d'appui aux communautés immigrantes de Bordeaux-Cartierville | Montreal | Quebec | Funding for four planting systems, food drying unit, conveyor, vacuum sealer, food storage and refrigeration, storage containers that can be returned. | $290,702 |
| Chisasibi Eeyou Resource and Research Institute | Chisasibi | Quebec | Purchase a hydroponic container farm, tractor and farming equipment. | $438,097 |
| Collectif Fermette Pointe-Saint-Charles | Montreal | Quebec | Purchase refurbished shipping containers, a four-season greenhouse, a composting system, raised garden beds with trellises, sustainable delivery vehicles, gardening tools, seeds, fruit trees, shrubs, and vines, outdoor furniture, and food service equipment. | $178,802 |
| Community Living North Halton | Milton | Ontario | Purchase garden infrastructure, kitchen equipment, cold storage and tableware to expand the community gardens in order to cook, preserve and serve meals to people with developmental disabilities. | $175,469 |
| Délı̨nę Got'ı̨nę Government | Délı̨nę | Northwest Territories | Purchase three greenhouses, garden beds, gardening tools and supplies, processing supplies, cold storage units, and a cargo van. | $338,471 |
| Eagle Lake First Nation No#27 | Migisi Sahgaigan | Ontario | Purchase a greenhouse and associated installation, irrigation system, raised garden beds, garden equipment and a walk-in cooler to grow food year round for distribution to community members. | $247,478 |
| Edtech Hive (2020) | King City | Ontario | Purchase a geodesic dome, high-tunnel greenhouses, caterpillar tunnels, cold storage, farm tools and equipment. | $196,585 |
| Fields Forward Society | Creston | British Columbia | Purchase a hydroponic farm, cold storage and a cargo van to establish food production and distribution. | $386,655 |
| Fort William First Nation | Fort William First Nation | Ontario | Purchase a fruit garden, fishing boat and equipment, chicken coops, meat processing equipment, freezers, and a cargo van. | $239,368 |
| Huu-ay-aht First Nations | Anacla | British Columbia | Purchase a hydroponic farm, processing hub, and cold storage to increase food production and food sovereignty. | $401,074 |
| Indigenous Food Sovereignty Assn. | Kitwanga | British Columbia | Purchase a tractor, a refrigerated truck, farm utility vehicles (x2), a walk-in cooler and freezer with electrical upgrades and solar system, a vegetable washer system, a heavy duty mulcher (stone crusher), weeders, equipment and attachments for food production, irrigation equipment, greenhouse foundation and hardware, and installation labour. | $473,925 |
| Kispiox Band | Kispiox | British Columbia | Purchase a hydroponic farm and kitchen appliances to establish food production and food sovereignty. | $287,354 |
| Lac Seul First Nation | Lac Seul | Ontario | Purchase sea cans w/ site prep, ATVs w/ trailers, skidoos, canoes w/ paddles, boats w/ motors, fishing & trapping equipment, butchering & slaughtering equipment, outdoor cooking equipment. | $358,919 |
| Listuguj Mi'gmaq Government | Listuguj | Quebec | Purchase a hydroponic farm, processing hub, and cold storage to establish food production and food sovereignty. | $402,820 |
| Lower Similkameen Indian Band | Cawston | British Columbia | Purchase irrigation system, well, raised beds, garden tools, mulch, tools for orchard planting, canning equipment, vegetable wash station, root cellar, walk-in freezer, walk-in cooler, tables and chairs. | $289,759 |
| Mama's Healing Garden Inc. | Etobicoke | Ontario | Purchase a greenhouse, raised garden beds, a food delivery van, a walk-in cooler, food processing, preservation and storage equipment. | $151,635 |
| Miawpukek First Nation | Miawpukek | Newfoundland and Labrador | Purchase a tractor, a greenhouse, garden beds, greenhouse interior installations, fruit trees and plants, food processing and food storage infrastructure. | $159,391 |
| Millbrook First Nation | Millbrook | Nova Scotia | Purchase fruit trees, growing supplies for the initial year, vertical growing material, well, rolling bench, heating system, vacuum sealer, freeze dryer, dehydrator, fence, cargo van, cooling system, freezer and fridge. | $181,229 |
| Mistawasis Nêhiyawak | Leask | Saskatchewan | Purchase a garden tractor, a rototiller, fencing and irrigation supplies. | $173,368 |
| Muskeg Lake Cree Nation | Marcelin | Saskatchewan | Purchase fruit trees and bushes, gardening equipment, cold storage and processing equipment. | $412,407 |
| Netmizaaggamig Nishnaabeg | Pic Mobert First Nation | Ontario | Purchase a hydroponic farm, processing hub, and cold storage to increase food production and food sovereignty. | $390,997 |
| Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation | Nelson House | Manitoba | Purchase beekeeping equipment, boats, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, a gamebird plucker, and cold storage units for fishing, hunting, harvesting, processing, and storing traditional country food. | $257,198 |
| Northern Village of Pinehouse | Pinehouse | Saskatchewan | Purchase a hydroponic farm, processing hub, and cold storage to establish food production and food sovereignty. | $390,886 |
| Peerless Trout First Nation | Peerless Lake | Alberta | Purchase two greenhouses, starting equipment and supplies, one-time greenhouse growing training, and a cargo van. | $327,631 |
| Pelican Lake | Leoville | Saskatchewan | Purchase fencing for a new elk farm and for an existing bison farm, a corral system for both herds, two community gardens and several all-terrain vehicles. | $457,422 |
| Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre | Iqaluit | Nunavut | Purchase a boat, sleds, snowmobiles and shipping to enable the organization to hunt, fish and harvest traditional country food for distribution to the community through community meals, foods skills programs and the country food store. | $119,550 |
| Red Sucker Lake Anisininew Nation | Red Sucker Lake | Manitoba | Purchase a hydroponic farm, processing hub, and cold storage to establish food production and food sovereignty. | $399,488 |
| Reena Inc. | Thornhill | Ontario | Purchase a refrigerated vehicle, expand their current hydroponic growing system, install irrigation systems at multiple locations, and to purchase indoor and outdoor garden boxes to expand their Community Farm Neighbourhood. | $156,062 |
| Revelstoke Local Food Initiative Society | Revelstoke | British Columbia | Purchase greenhouses, irrigation system, gardening infrastructure, fencing, food processing equipment, smokehouse, insulated shipping container, walk-in cooler, root cellar and the associated installation. | $209,333 |
| Rolling River First Nation | Rolling River First Nation | Manitoba | Purchase a greenhouse, garden boxes, seeds, fruit trees, gardening tools, butchering equipment, work stations, refrigerators and freezers to grow and harvest fresh fruit and produce year round and to harvest and preserve wild game for distribution to the community. | $217,882 |
| Sambaa K'e First Nation | Sambaa K'e | Northwest Territories | Purchase garden supplies, a vegetable wash station, three pods/shipping containers and the associated cost to transform them into processing and cold storage units, and processing equipment to establish a self-sustaining food hub. | $320,549 |
| Second Harvest Canada / Deuxième Récolte Canada | Etobicoke | Ontario | Purchase food processing equipment, refrigeration equipment along with food packaging equipment and supplies to retrofit a portion of the distribution centre to process, package, blast freeze and store frozen surplus produce from local partner farms and preserve it for use year-round. | $500,000 |
| Shoal Lake Cree Nation | Pakwaw Lake | Saskatchewan | Purchase a greenhouse, a smokehouse, a seacan fridge, a seacan freezer, a fridge & freezer, and a side-by-side. | $284,731 |
| Spuzzum First Nation | Spuzzum | British Columbia | Purchase a hydroponic farm, processing hub, and cold storage to establish food production and food sovereignty. | $405,068 |
| Squamish Nation | North Vancouver | British Columbia | Purchase kitchen appliances, fish cleaning station, smokehouse, refrigerator, freezer, walk-in fridge, shelving, tables and chairs. | $270,631 |
| St. Theresa Point First Nation | St. Theresa Point | Manitoba | Purchase a hydroponic farm, processing hub, and cold storage to establish food production and food sovereignty. | $409,526 |
| Stswecem'c Xget'tem First Nation | Dog Creek | British Columbia | Purchase a greenhouse with irrigation and foundation. | $332,870 |
| Swan River First Nation | Kinuso | Alberta | Purchase a smoker, a meat grinder, a meat band saw, meat slicers, food processing equipment, a food processing container unit with walk-in cooler, and farming implements, and to install livestock fencing. | $345,609 |
| The Boyle Street Service Society | Edmonton | Alberta | Purchase a hydroponic farm, processing hub, and cold storage to establish food production. | $326,222 |
| The Corporation of the City of Mississauga | Mississauga | Ontario | Purchase raised garden beds with irrigation system, a greenhouse, growing supplies, food processing equipment, food storage equipment, tableware, tables and chairs. | $155,996 |
| The Corporation of the Town of Shelburne | Shelburne | Ontario | Purchase garden supplies, cold storage, processing equipment and other kitchen appliances. | $187,453 |
| The John Howard Society of Brandon Inc. | Brandon | Manitoba | Purchase a hydroponic farm and a refrigerated vehicle to establish food production. | $307,752 |
| The Key First Nation | Norquay | Saskatchewan | Purchase a tractor, all-terrain vehicle, greenhouse including installation and supplies, grow tunnels, boat and and fishing supplies, industrial dehydrator, vacuum sealer and cold storage. | $260,849 |
| The Redeemers Food Bank Ltd. | Nisku/Leduc | Alberta | Purchase two greenhouses with geothermal heating, climate control, and irrigation systems. | $231,713 |
| Tootinaowaziibeeng Treaty Reserve | Tootinaowaziibeeng | Manitoba | Purchase all-season chicken coops, small equipment to manage a flock, a tractor with agricultural attachments, a green house, greenhouse starting supplies equipment and tools, plants to establish to establish an orchard, bee hive equipment, and installation costs to establish a multi-faceted food production system. | $299,981 |
| Ts'uubaa-asatx | Lake Cowichan | British Columbia | Purchase raised garden beds, greenhouses, an ATV, food processing equipment, industrial kitchen equipment, and food serving equipment. | $154,335 |
| Tzeachten First Nation | Chilliwack | British Columbia | Purchase a greenhouse including site preparation, installation and related tools and equipment along with wash sinks, storage shelves, cold storage, tables, chairs and tableware. | $496,993 |
| Ville de Montréal | Montréal | Quebec | Funding for a greenhouse complex consisting of multiple greenhouses, including greenhouse management equipment (unit heater, climate management system, thermal tiles), wash station and a cold room. | $500,000 |
| Wolastoq Education Initiative Inc. | Tobique First Nation | New Brunswick | Purchase a greenhouse, supplies to increase a garden, fishing and hunting equipment, food processing equipment, and walk-in coolers. | $201,666 |
| Woodstock First Nation | Woodstock | New Brunswick | Purchase garden infrastructure, food processing equipment, cold storage, shelving, a forklift, trailers and refrigerated vehicles to improve the applicant's ability to grow, process and distribute food to its community members. | $275,542 |
| Yukon First Nation Education Directorate Society | Whitehorse | Yukon | Purchase greenhouse heaters, animal fencing, edible plants, water infrastructure, agricultural attachments for a skid steer, butcher equipment and tools, walk-in cold storage, and 2 ATVs with trailers. | $210,140 |
| Zagimē Anishinabēk | Grenfell | Saskatchewan | Purchase a vertical farm (including the concrete pad), bison fences and fence posts, potato planter and harvester, water pump, grazing gates, and portable water stations to provide year-round fresh produce and sustainable bison grazing systems for staple crops and protein for the Zagimē Anishinabēk community. | $447,605 |
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