Resources

• Agrarian Trust (our sister organization)
• Sustainable Agriculture Land Tenure Initiative
• The Carrot Project
• Equity Trust
• New Entry Sustainable Farming Project
• UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture/New Farmer Project
• Northeast Beginning Farmer Project
• CA Farmlink
• Land for Good
• New England Farmers Union
• American Farmland Trust
• The Intervale Center
• Center for Rural Affairs
• RAFI-USA
• University of Wisconsin’s Land Tenure Center
• Environmental Working Group
• A Growing Culture
• Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program
• Women Food and Agriculture Network
• National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
• New England Small Farm Institute

• FarmLINK (Canada)
  • Contact: [email protected]
  • Noted publication(s):
    • Accessing Land for Farming Guidebook
    • Farm Readiness Workbook
    • Farm Seeker Primer and Farm Opportunities Primer
    • 70 Considerations In a Land Share Agreement
    • Top 25 Questions for a Farm Opportunity
• National Farmers Union
  • Contact: [email protected]
• Farmland Legacies (Saskatchewan)
  • Contact: Duane Guina  – [email protected]
• Ontario Farmland Trust
  • Contact: Matt Setzkorn – [email protected]
• FarmFolk/City Folk
  • Contact: [email protected]
  • Noted publication: A Guide to Farmland Access Agreements
• Young Agrarians
  • Contact: Sara Dent -[email protected]
  • Noted page:  BC Land Matching Program
• Landshare Canada

• GrowNYC – “Farmers on the Edge” report
• Use-Value Assessment of Rural Land (Policy Focus Report)” by Anderson, John E. and Richard W. England
• Creating Social Capital by Elizabeth Henderson, Peacework Farm
• “Building a Future with Farmers” by the National Young Farmers Coalition
• “How You Can Help America’s New Agrarians” Neil Hamilton in Organic Gardening Magazine
• Indigenous Land Tenure and Land Use in Alaska The University of Wisconsin- Madison
• Non-profit and Resident Collaboratives The University of Wisconsin- Madison
• Pension Funds: Key Players in the Global Farmland Grab by Grain
• Private Sector Agricultural Tenancy Arrangements in Europe The University of Wisconsin- Madison
• Re-entering African-American Farmers The University of Wisconsin- Madison
• Who Owns Natural Resources in the United States and Canada The University of Wisconsin- Madison
• Agrarianism by Jeremy Beer
• The Living New Deal highlights the ongoing legacy of FDR’s New Deal, including Resettlement Communities, that included small agricultural homesteads
• Lease-Based Approach to Sustainable Agriculture: Part 1 and Part 2 Drake University Law School
• Helping Landowners Help New Farmers Drake University Law School
• Corn Flakes Aren’t Just For Kelloggs Drake University Law School
• Collectivized Lands in Spain The Independent
• Concerns over use of glyphosate-based herbicides – BioMed Central
• publications from aGter
• List of films relating to agriculture, food systems and food justice on PFSA
• Short film, "Weed Dating" by Greenhorns in collaboration with MOFGA at the Common Ground County Fair
• The Rhode Island Agricultural Mediation Program offers free, confidential assistance to help resolve agriculture-related issues. We can help farmers to resolve disputes about contracts, land use, agricultural loans, succession plans, and more!

• The FarmLASTS Project: Farm Land Access, Succession, Tenure and Stewardship
• ATTRA ‘s Finding Land to Farm: Six ways to Secure Farmland
• Land for Good’s Acquiring Your Farm Online Tutorial
• Equity Trust Publications
• Acquiring Land to Farm Guide
• Greenhorns’ Land, Liberty, Sunshine, Stamina: Mini Compendium on Land Tenure Resources
• Finding Land to Farm
• Finding a Farm to Buy or Lease
• Climate and Soil Considerations
• Infrastructure Considerations
• New England Small Farms Institute and the Intervale Center. Holding Ground: A Guide to Northeast Farmland Tenure and Stewardship
• Gaining Ground – How CSAs Can Acquire, Hold and Pass On Land
• The FarmLASTS Project: Farm Land Access, Succession, Tenure and Stewardship
• Creating a Life Together about establishing intentional communities with valuable information on buying land with a group of other people

• The International Farm Transition Network
• National Family Farm Coalition Farmland Monitor (About)
• Center for Rural Affairs’ Listing of Linking Programs by State
• New England Farmland Finder
• Land Stewardship Project’s Land Clearinghouse
• Center for Rural Affairs’ Land Link
• MOSES Land Link-Up with classified ads frequently listing linkage opportunities
• Rodale Institute’s New Farm Classifieds
• CA Farmlink
• IDA program
• Organic Farm Succession Program allows experienced farmers and qualified beginning farmers take over mature organic farming operations
• Columbia Land Conservancy (NY) Farmer Landowner Match Program
• New England Farm Finder– a regional farm property clearinghouse
• Central New Mexico LandLink Initiative 
• Farm Asset Builder Program an IDA matched savings program that strengthens farm businesses through asset acquisition and technical assistance
• New England Land Link
• Maine Farm Link
• New Jersey Farm Link
• Connecticut Farm Link
• New York Farm Net
• Pennsylvania Farm Link
• National Farm Transition Network
• Ontario, Canada FarmLink
• New Entry Sustainable Farming Project
• Farm Link Montana

• The Intervale Center, Burlington VT
• Tillian Center, MI
• ALBA, CA
• The SEED Farm, PA
• Viva Farms, WA
• Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming, NY
• NE Beginning Farmers’ Green County Agricultural Incubator Study
• American Farm School, Thessaloniki, Greece

• The FarmLASTS Project: Farm Land Access, Succession, Tenure and Stewardship
• Farmers Guide to Farming in NY – Finding a Farm to Buy or Lease
• Georgia Organics – Lease Agreement Template
• Iowa State Extension – Lease Template
• Land For Good – Leasing tutorial, Toolbox for Leasing Land
• Vermont Land Trust – Conservation purchase agreements 
• Ohio State Extension – Managing Landlord-Tenant Relationships: A Strategic Perspective
• Model Agricultural Ground Lease
• Commentary on Model Agricultural Ground Lease
• Model Agricultural Conservation Easement with Option to Purchase

The USDA and American Farmland Trust offers a very comprehensive land trust locator tool at findalandtrust.org

• A New Lease on Farmland: Assuring a Future for Farming in the Northeast by The New Economics Institute
• Land Trusts and Agricultural Land
• 2011 Community Land Trust Technical Manual
• Preserving Farms for Farmers Manual by Equity Trust provides case studies on farm protection strategies as well as model programs and documents
• American Farmland Trust
• Farm Land Working Group
• Commentary on Model Agricultural Conservation Easement with Option to Purchase
• The FarmLASTS Project: Farm Land Access, Succession, Tenure and Stewardship

• Alaska Farmland Trust
• California Council of Land Trusts
• Brentwood Agricultural Land Trust (BALT)
• Big Sur Land Trust
• Sierra Foothills Conservancy, Ranchers Program
• Land Trust of Santa Cruz
• Sonoma Land Trust
• Placer Co Land Trust
• Marin Agricultural Land Trust
• Vermont Land Trust
• Community Land Trust of the Southern Berkshires
• Peconic Land Trust
• Farm Catskills
• Maine Farmland Trust
• NY Agricultural Land Trust
• Lancaster Farmland Trust
• Connecticut Farmland Trust
• Rhode Island Land Trust Council
•  PCC Farmland Trust
• Oregon Sustainable Agriculture Land Trust
• Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust
• Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust
• Georgia Agricultural Land Trust

• Financing Your Farm by CA Farmlink a quick 4-pager on conventional sources of farm credit, and the tradeoffs
• The Farmer’s Guide to Agricultural Credit a guide to navigate the more traditional sources of farm credit, especially in terms of effectively and successfully applying for a loan through lenders
• CISA – Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture- references and resources for grants and financing, financial planning, and land access and transition
• CA Farmlink Financial Literacy Guide

• New Spirit Farmland Partnerships is a social finance organization that connects sustainable farmers to land and business opportunities
• Organic Farmland Access Program helps investors to buy land, which they subsequently lease to farmers that enroll in the program
• The Land Connection facilitates socially motivated investors to buy land, transition it to organic and resell it to organic farmers.
• NCB Capital Impact provides flexible financing to projects that increase healthy food access in low income California communities
• Impact Investing for Rural Wealth Creation: Investing for Financial Returns and Community Impact

• Financing Alternatives for Small Farms by CA Farmlink
• UVM Guide to Financing the Community Supported Farm
• The Carrot Project provides small to medium ($5,000-$75,000) loans to farmers and farm-related businesses by partnering with banks and community loan funds.  They operate in Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont and the Greater Berkshires region of New York and Connecticut.
• The Farmer and Lender Project: Strategies to Sustain and Enhance Rural Development in North Carolina RAFI-USA.
• Land, Liberty, Sunshine, Stamina: Mini Compendium on Land Tenure Resources by the Greenhorns
• Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) connects local business networks and leaders to spread solutions and increase investment in local economies
• USDA Rural Development Resources offers grants, loans, technical assistance and research to help rural cooperatives be established and expand.
• USDA Rural Cooperatives Magazine
• Vermont Farm Fund

• Project on Student Debt
• The National Foundation for Credit Counseling is a good and safe place to start – they connect people to community-based office that can provide credit counseling and education.  Go to their site, or call 800-388-2227.
• Feedthepig.org is a cutely named campaign for public education on smart money management
• Student Loan Calculator and Amortization

• The Carrot Project’s financing resources page
• Center for Rural Affairs Beginning Farmer Funding Sources
• Beginning Farmers.org Funding Resources
• Southside Community Land Trust – Urban Ag Financing Resources
• Center for Rural Affairs’ Rural Enterprise Assistance Program (REAP)
• Financing Your Farm by CA Farmlink
• Financing Alternatives for Small Farms by CA Farmlink
• Farm Service Agency (FSA) 
• The FSA’s Farm Loan Information Chart is an easy access key to the different financing programs available, and their terms
• The Plain Language Guide to Applying for a FSA loan from the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project
• USDA Loan Chart Fact Sheet
• Farm Credit Network is a national network of member-owned farmer credit cooperatives
• FC East program for beginning farmers
• Super Useful eOrganic Webinar, ‘NRCS EQUIP: Technical and Financial Support for Conservation on Organic Farms’ created by Oregon Tilth’s Organic Conservation Program

• Slow Money Alliance
• Micro Enterprise Works
• RSF Social Finance offers loans to both non-profit and for profit enterprises, focusing on sustainable food and agriculture and ecological stewardship
• Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) – Tobacco Reinvestment Fund
• Whole Foods Market’s Local Producer Loan Program (LPLP) provides up to $10 million in low-interest loans to small, local producers
• Coastal Enterprises, Inc. (CEI) provides financing and business support services to small business enterprises in Northern New England and upstate NY

• NOFA VT’s Revolving Loan Fund
• Equity Trust Fund
• Catholic Worker Farmer Revolving Loan Fund
• Grow NYC’s New Farm Development Program Loan Fund

• Guide to state and federal grants for small farmers Cornell Small Farms Program
• Guide to SARE grants (farmer research grants from the USDA) Cornell Small Farms Program
• ATTRA provides information on EQUIP grants program
• NSAC – Guide to Conservation Grants through the Farm Bill
• Oregon Tilth’s  Organic Conservation Program
• Animal Welfare Approved – Good Husbandry Grants Program

• Farm Beginnings  Hawthorne Valley offers farm planning courses and workshops.
• Cornell Small Farms  Program
• Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship
• Stateline Farm Beginnings – A farmer-led training and support program designed to help people plan and launch sustainable farm businesses
• Guide for Aspiring Entrepreneurs