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Backyard Farms LLC of Las Cruces is among five New Mexico companies that will receive New Mexico Small Business Innovation Research (NMSBIR) matching grants from the New Mexico Economic Development Department (NMEDD) to help their businesses grow, the department announced in a Jan. 21 news release.
Backyard Farms, owned by Rachael Ryan, will receive a $25,000 grant, NMEDD said. The company “seeks to improve the food system in the Borderland region, empowering small fruit and vegetable farmers by using lyophilization (freeze drying) to create a nutritious and delicious healthy food product that can reach vulnerable food insecure populations without the need for refrigeration,” NMEDD said.
“These five companies represent some of the best technology and science that our state has to offer,” NMEDD Secretary Alicia Keyes said. “The grantees are working on advanced and innovative processes that will move the whole country forward while offering impressive benefits to the quality of all human life.”
The NMSBIR grant program provides recipients with additional resources to commercialize the technology developed using federal SBIR funding. Federal SBIR grants support small businesses engaged in research and development of high-potential technologies. NMSBIR grants support local science and technology companies in achieving their commercialization goals.
For more information on NMSBIR grants, contact Alex M. Greenberg, technology director of the NMEDD Office of Science & Technology, at AlexM.Greenberg@state.nm.us. Visit edd.newmexico.gov/ost.
