HMS Scholarship
Healthy land, healthy communities. That’s our motto.
Harvest Moon Society is an educational charity with a mandate to provide experiential educational opportunities focused on regenerative agriculture, sustainable food systems, and environmental stewardship.
Our Mission is to develop a learning centre that works toward strengthening and building linkages between urban and rural areas, empowering communities while creating strategies and infrastructure to sustain community and environment. This will be carried out using a diversity of tactics focused on grassroots and participatory practices.
Harvest Moon Society is excited to offer up to three (3) scholarships of $500 each
to youth aged 17-21 who reside within the boundaries of Manitoba for furthering their knowledge or education related to regenerative agriculture, sustainable food systems, and environmental stewardship. Examples of further education may include, but are not limited to: tuition at an educational institution, and/or registration for a course or conference.
Applications will be reviewed by a panel of judges from the Harvest Moon Society. Deadline for application is April 30, 2024. Successful applicants will be notified by May 31, 2024.
To apply, please answer the following question:
How would you use $500 to further your knowledge or education in the areas of regenerative agriculture, sustainable food systems, and/or environmental stewardship and why is this important to you?
The format of your application is up to you: you could answer in an essay, video, slideshow, or in any other format in which you feel comfortable. We ask that you limit your application to the equivalent of 2 written pages or 2 minutes of video/audio.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to info@harvestmoonsociety.org.
Congratulations to 2023 recipients of the HMS Scholarship:
Emily Robb and Kyla McDonald.
Emily Robb -
We were very pleased to have a visit from Emily Robb and some of her family members this weekend. Emily is one of the recipients of the HMS Scholarship and is going to apply the $500 to her third year agroecology studies at the University of Manitoba. We spent some time touring the Harvest Moon Learning Centre and we learned that Emily has family roots in Clearwater! Small world. Emily has been invited to come back in September to celebrate with us at the Harvest Moon Festival. Congratulations, Emily!
Kyla McDonald - Cartwright, MB
Kyla came by the Harvest Moon Learning Centre after being in the fields around Killarney all day. She's going to use the $500 towards tuition for her third year of Agribusiness at the University of Manitoba.
Kyla's application outlined how "regenerative agriculture is extremely important to the future of the agriculture industry. By practicing this, farmers are working with nature to promote soil biodiversity, improve SOM, and protect the soil which all help to reverse climate change." That really struck a chord with us. Congratulations, Kyla!