Grow Hope

Grow Hope brings rural and urban Canadians together in support of ending global hunger. Together they share in the risk and reward of farming in Canada and around the world.

Become a virtual farmer and support people around the world with emergency food and long-term food security by selecting your province's Grow Hope project on this page.

Grow Hope farmer Grant Dyck (black golf shirt) discusses a soybean crop with guests at the harvest celebration held at Crystal Spring Hutterite Colony.

How it works

Generous farmers in Canada agree to donate land to grow a crop for Grow Hope.
Generous people like you sponsor the growth of a crop by donating to help cover the costs of farming. It costs between $300-500 per acre to provide seed, fertilizer, fuel and other things needed to grow a crop.
After harvest, farmers sell the crop and donate the proceeds to Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB). Proceeds from the sale of the crop can be as much as $600 per acre or more. Crop proceeds used to provide emergency food assistance for people living through a crisis may be matched 4:1 through the CFGB’s Partnership with Global Affairs Canada.

While you provide hope to people around the world through food, you can also learn more about farming and what’s involved in growing food.

Your sponsorship grows and multiplies — just like the seeds planted by the farmer.

Select a Grow Hope project below to learn more and get engaged. Since the projects may invite you to visit the farms during the growing season to see your sponsored acres, you may want to choose one close to you.

Acres sponsored for MCC will be donated to MCC’s account at Canadian Foodgrains Bank, for use in projects that help people who don’t have enough to eat.

There’s more!

Through a special arrangement with the Government of Canada through the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, MCC can get matching funds at up to 4:1. For example, your donation of $400/acre will grow not only a crop through Grow Hope, but will potentially grow to $1600 or more!

1In other words, your gift will grow not only literally, as a crop rises from the ground, but also financially, as the crop is sold and matched by the Canadian government.

A farmer from Alberta with the Grow Hope project stands in front of his equipment in a field.

Grow Hope Alberta

MCC Alberta partners with a group of Alberta farmers near the Crossfield and Sherwood Park areas to grow 300+ acres each year for Grow Hope.

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Woman in a field holding grain with a farmer holding olympic medals

Grow Hope Saskatchewan

Grow Hope Saskatchewan started in 2017 when MCC Saskatchewan collaborated with partners to find creative ways to engage more people in helping end global hunger. Funds raised support people around the world with emergency food and long-term food security.

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Sun Yann, a subsistence farmer in rural Mesang district, feeds fish in a fishpond behind her house. The fishpond was designed and built through a project conducted by MCC partner Organization to Develop our Villages and funded through MCC's account at the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB).

Grow Hope Manitoba

Through Grow Hope, you are helping us get one step closer to a world without hunger. Join our community of local growers by sponsoring an acre, and help support people around the world with emergency food and long-term food security

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Tom Neufeld stands in front of his farming equipment in a field.

Grow Hope Ontario

Not a farmer? Here’s your chance to join in the work of farming by sponsoring an acre through Grow Hope in Niagara, Ontario. Funds raised support people around the world with emergency food and long-term food security.

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Stories from Grow Hope

Read stories of people just like you who are becoming virtual farmers and creating real change. Meet the urban and rural communities working together to end hunger.