Growing Your Food or Farm Business
No matter where you are on your journey—growing a farm, launching a food business, or expanding a neighborhood market—we offer flexible capital, technical support, and strong partnerships to help your business succeed and strengthen your community.
Are you an entrepreneur looking for investment?
From farms and food businesses to markets and supply chain infrastructure, we invest across the local food economy through the Fair Food Fund and our management of the Michigan Good Food Fund network. We focus on expanding opportunities for emerging entrepreneurs, especially those overlooked by traditional financing, helping to create jobs, strengthen small businesses, and keep food dollars circulating in local communities.
Our Services
With flexible financing, wrap-around business assistance, and access to strong local and national networks, entrepreneurs like you can build resilient businesses and nourish your communities. Explore how we can support your business.
Wrap-Around Business Assistance
We support farm and food entrepreneurs with access to industry expertise, critical connections, and curated support to accompany financing.
Catalytic Capital
We invest creative, catalytic capital designed to help entrepreneurs start or scale, often partnering with other lenders to unlock opportunities and make investments possible that traditional financing alone cannot support.
National Network & Resources
We connect entrepreneurs to capital, business support, and national networks built through decades of food systems and impact investing experience.
Eligibility
As a mission-driven fund, we look for entrepreneurs making a difference in their communities.
Geography
We invest in businesses working in Michigan, and work alongside partners across the United States to share knowledge and resources.
Sector
In Michigan, we invest in all types of businesses working across the food system. Outside of Michigan we are focused on retail enterprises that support the viability of local and regional farms.
Stage
We invest in early-stage businesses and support the continued growth of more mature companies.
Financial Sustainability
We partner with profitable businesses, or those with clear paths to profitability, reviewing finances and discussing future growth plans together.
Social Impact
We invest in food businesses serving their communities, supporting local vision, resilience, and economic opportunity.
Start a Conversation
Want to get connected and access our services? We’d love to chat. Complete this inquiry form and a member of our team will be in touch.
Voices From The Table
From farmers and processors to food trucks and neighborhood markets, we invest in the people and businesses that power their communities.
“Going out and getting a loan from any lender is not impossible. But a collective like Michigan Good Food Fund that wants you to succeed, and makes sure you are prepared for what’s ahead, that’s harder to find.”
Jerome Brown
Detroit Soul, Detroit, Michigan
“It’s been a long journey with a lot of hurdles. It’s just that everything is so new and you’ve got to sort of hit a wall, step back and say, ‘Oh, there’s a wall there, and go around or over. But I know the right people to help me overcome those hurdles. I’m surrounded by the greatest people and the greatest partners.”
Alontae Pittman
Whittier Bodega, Detroit, Michigan
“I felt there was a real need—because we all live in the community—and I was raising my kids and I watched stuff locally and there was nothing. There was no place to buy affordable produce. You could get fresh, or you could get affordable—but you couldn’t get both.”
Lisa Johanon
Founder and Executive Director of Central Detroit Christian Community Development Corporation about the origins of Peaches & Greens in Detroit, Michigan.
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