The newly expanded Marbleseed Organic Resource Directory now includes buyers, suppliers, and certification agencies, as well as educational resources such as fact sheets, workbooks, guidebooks, and more.
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Beginning Farmers, Beginning Farmers : Connect with Peers, Land Access, Farm Business, Farm Business : General, Farm Business : Marketing, Farm Business : Funding, Farm Business : Certification, Farming Systems, Leadership and Community
For the last four years, the National Young Farmers Coalition (Young Farmers) has partnered with Chipotle to support young and beginning farmers and ranchers start up and grow their businesses with a flexible funding opportunity each spring. The program provided 50 farmers and ranchers with $5,000 each in the spring of 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Grant recipients also received a one-year membership to the National Young Farmers Coalition.
In the fifth and final year of the program, they are celebrating distributing 50 grants to a new cohort of young farmers and ranchers in 2024!
2023 by Francis Blake, Bobby King, Nicole Rakobitsch, and Art Thicke
Farmers use solar energy to produce food and fiber. Now with solar arrays it is possible to add renewable electricity to your farm's production. A solar array will pay for itself, generate profit…
There are a variety of ways to incorporate money into your farm
besides the sales of your products. We will share several ways to fund
your farm while minimizing or avoiding the stress of debt and…
Farm Business : Funding, Leadership and Community : Healthy Communities
This guide is written for anyone seeking help from federal programs to foster sustainable and innovative initiatives in this country associated with agriculture and forestry.
Farm Business : Funding, Farm Business : General
A guide to the Conservation Reserve Program from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC).
Farm Business : Funding, Farm Business : Funding
Supports innovative on-farm research and demonstrations. It funds projects that explore sustainable agriculture practices and systems that could make farming more profitable, resource efficient, or personally satisfying.
Beginning Farmers, Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farm Business : Funding
FSA loans for qualified first-time farm buyers with no or low downpayments and a low interest rate. Make an appointment to speak with your local FSA agent for more information.
Farm Business : Funding, Farm Business : Funding
Get technical assistance and guidance on hundreds of practices, conservation planning, or payments to help cover costs to build and install them. Plus, now it includes incentives for creating wildlife habitat.
Farm Business : Funding, Farm Business : Funding
Certified operations may receive up to 50 percent of their certification costs paid during the program year, not to exceed $500 per certification scope. Visit your local FSA office to apply.
Farm Business : Funding, Farm Business : Funding
The VAPG program helps agricultural producers enter into value-added activities related to the processing and marketing of new products
Farm Business : Funding, Production : Fertility
Financial and technical assistance to assist producers who want to extend the growing season in an environmentally safe manner.
Farming Systems : Organic, Farm Business : Funding, Farming Systems : Transition
Cost share for transition, organic farming education, and soil testing.
Farm Business : Funding, Farm Business : Funding
Your best bet if you’ve already installed conservation practices and you’re interested in doing even more. CSP rewards what you’ve already done and gives you a chance to try something new, or maybe do something you’ve always thought about doing.
Farm Business : Funding, Farm Business : Funding
This guide provides an in-depth look at dozens of federal programs and policies most important to sustainable agriculture, and details how they can be accessed by farmers, ranchers, and grassroots organizations nationwide.
