Leadership and Community
Farm work is rewarding, challenging, and ever evolving–especially in the face of climate change where unpredictable weather patterns can make last year’s planting calendar feel precarious. Between a changing climate, and increasing competition and market capture from industrialized farms, there is an ongoing need to develop a leader-full organic farming community that can advocate for system change from the grassroots to the treetops.
When it comes to the solutions needed to grow thriving organic farm businesses and strengthen organic food and farming systems, no one knows the answers better than the farmers and farmer-workers who are providing care and nourishment for those ecosystems every day.
Find your leadership niche and hone your advocacy skills to grow the organic farming movement with Marbleseed's suggested Leadership and Community Resources.

Advance Public Policy
Build your public speaking and storytelling skills to share your story at local town halls, with policy makers, and advocacy organizations building campaigns.
Farming Into the Future by Centering Farmworkers
Outlook for Organic - Challenges, Opportunities, and...
Shaping the 2023 Farm Bill Together
NOP Program Update and Focus on Transition to Organic...
Managed Rotational Grazing Policies: An Overview of Farm...
We gotta fight for our right to repair
Land Access Alliance
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Show up for democracy
Full democratic participation is in all of our best interests. Find out how you can support little “d” democracy in your community, from canvassing opportunities to building your own campaign with grassroots financing and broad community support that centers the needs of a truly regenerative and intersectional food and farming system.
Get Started! A Guide to USDA Resources for Historically...
Farming Into the Future by Centering Farmworkers
Reclaiming Ancestral Knowledge, Dismantling Structural...
26 Ways to be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets
Food and Agriculture Justice Resources
Mapping our Roles in Social Change Ecosystems Worksheet
National Latino Farmers and Ranchers
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Support Healthy Communities
Whether you’re passionate about promoting equitable access to locally grown produce or protecting farms from pesticide drift, find tools and resources that cultivate healthy communities.
Asbestos Exposure
Mental Health First Aid in the Farming Community
Get Started! A Guide to USDA Resources for Historically...
Farming Into the Future by Centering Farmworkers
What are Fair Systems for Farm and Food Businesses? | Audio...
In Their Own Words - What Farm Employees Value in a Work...
Reclaiming Ancestral Knowledge, Dismantling Structural...
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Be a Farmer Leader
Support the next wave of organic and regenerative farmers by being a farmer mentor, contributing to Marbleseed content, and build your farm community leadership skills with trainings, programs, and resource guides.
Farming Into the Future by Centering Farmworkers
New Farmer U
What are Fair Systems for Farm and Food Businesses? | Audio...
In Their Own Words - What Farm Employees Value in a Work...
Reclaiming Ancestral Knowledge, Dismantling Structural...
Cooperatives: A Business Model for the Solidarity Economy
Managed Rotational Grazing Policies: An Overview of Farm...
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