{"id":25459,"date":"2021-06-04T13:51:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T17:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=25459"},"modified":"2021-06-04T14:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T18:00:18","slug":"maryland-wine-and-grape-promotion-fund-accepting-grant-applications-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2021\/06\/04\/maryland-wine-and-grape-promotion-fund-accepting-grant-applications-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Wine and Grape Promotion Fund Accepting Grant Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/MDA-Graphics-36.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24331\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2020\/05\/01\/maryland-wine-and-grape-promotion-fund-accepting-grant-applications-4\/attachment\/mda-graphics-36\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/MDA-Graphics-36.png?fit=1024%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,512\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MDA Grape &amp;amp; Wine Promotion\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/MDA-Graphics-36.png?fit=760%2C380&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24331 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/MDA-Graphics-36.png?resize=760%2C380\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/MDA-Graphics-36.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/MDA-Graphics-36.png?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/MDA-Graphics-36.png?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><strong><i>Proposals Due by July 15<\/i><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><b>ANNAPOLIS, MD <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013 The Governor\u2019s Advisory Commission on Maryland Wine and Grape Growing is accepting grant applications for funding from the Maryland Wine and Grape Promotion Fund. The fund seeks to promote the production and consumption of Maryland wine, and increase the growth of commercial wine grapes across the state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Department of Agriculture is the administrative agency responsible for receiving the applications and disbursing grant money to selected applicants. Funding priorities include, but are not limited to:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Improving the quality and acreage of Maryland-grown fruit available to the state\u2019s wineries;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Increasing the market share for Maryland wine;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Increasing awareness of Maryland wine and grapes; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Developing professional education opportunities to support wineries and the grape growing industry.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proposal guidelines and application forms are available on the department\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/maryland_products\/Pages\/MDWine_GrapeFund.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Applications can be found on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/onestop.md.gov\/forms\/maryland-wine-and-grape-promotion-fund-proposal-application-60882be9252e4702a00462bc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland\u2019s OneStop Portal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><b>must be submitted by July 15, 2021, at 11:59 p.m.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> For additional information, please contact Karen Fedor at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:karen.fedor@maryland.gov\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">karen.fedor@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or 410-841-5773.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"># # #<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Follow the Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MdAgDept\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@MdAgDept<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposals Due by July 15 ANNAPOLIS, MD \u2013 The Governor\u2019s Advisory Commission on Maryland Wine and Grape Growing is accepting grant applications for funding from the Maryland Wine and Grape Promotion Fund. The fund seeks to promote the production and consumption of Maryland wine, and increase the growth of commercial wine grapes across the state.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2021\/06\/04\/maryland-wine-and-grape-promotion-fund-accepting-grant-applications-5\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25459"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25464,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25459\/revisions\/25464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}