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Resource Directory

Find everything you need to help your farm grow

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.

Want to see your business or resource listed in the Marbleseed Organic Resource Directory? We review all submissions to ensure products, services, and educational resources are appropriate for inclusion in the directory. To submit your business or resource for consideration, please use the forms below.

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Land Access for Emerging Farmers

Overcoming Entry Barriers for Emerging, Beginning, and Immigrant Farmers 
2024 by Vitalis Tita

This workshop will address some of the challenges that beginning farmers, particularly immigrant farmers in minority communities, face as they try to gain traction and carve spaces for themselves…

Wisconsin Beginning Farmer Resource Guide

Beginning Farmers, Land Access, Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farm Business, Farm Business : General, Farm Business : Marketing, Farming Systems, Field Crops, Fruits and Specialty Crops, Vegetables, Livestock, Production, Production : General, Soils
USDA Farm Service Agency in Wisconsin, in partnership with the Natural Resources Conservation Service; Risk Management Agency; Rural Development; Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP); and UW-Madison Extension is proud to announce the launch of the Wisconsin Beginning Farmer Resource Guide.

This guide was developed to provide producers just getting started in agriculture with a well-rounded resource. Set up as a road map, it walks beginning farmers through the various resources available to support them through their journey of starting an agriculture operation, farm, or food business. The road map includes stops for phases such as Brainstorming, Learning, Planning, Funding, Forming, Operating, and Networking, as well as additional resources.

Creative Land Access for Beginning Farmers
2023 by Bonnie Warndahl, Brett Olson, Katie Kubovcik, Moses Momanyi

Join experienced Farmland Access Navigators to learn about the
current challenges and solutions of land tenure. They will share land
access stories and dive into creative solutions to land acquisition…

The Land Access Dilemma—How the Hub Can Help - Audio article
Jan 2023 by Bonnie Warndahl

Bonnie Warndahl, Farmland Access Navigator discusses land access issues for farmers, including her own story, and what Renewing the Countryside's (RTC) Farmland Access Program is initiating to help…

Facilitating Beginning Farmer Access to Farmland

Land Access, Land Access : Incoming Farmers
November/December 2021 Organic Broadcaster article about farmland access for beginning farmers.

Expanding the Farmland Access Navigator Team
May 2022 by Marbleseed

Finding quality, affordable land is challenging. The Land Access Hub is a group of professionals that assist in land acquisition and are aware of the challenges and needs of beginning farmer land…

Educational Opportunities

Beginning Farmers, Land Access : Incoming Farmers
Factsheet: List of educational opportunities to learn more about organic farming

Elsewhere Farm

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farming Systems : Incubator Farm
Incubator Farm in Herbster WI

Big River Farms

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farming Systems : Incubator Farm
Incubator farm serving memerging farmers in MN

Farm Service Agency's Farm Ownership Loans

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.

Global Greens

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farming Systems : Incubator Farm
Reconnects former refugee farmers with the land as they build their new life in the U.S., Des Moines, IA

Farley Center

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farming Systems : Incubator Farm
Incubator farm in Dane County, WI

Ag Solidarity Network

Beginning Farmers, Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Land Access : Outgoing Farmers
free online community platform for farmers

New Roots Community Farm

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farming Systems : Incubator Farm
Incubator Farm in Dilworth, MN

Farmland Access Decision-Making Tool

Beginning Farmers, Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Land Access : Outgoing Farmers
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Kilimo Minnesota

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farming Systems : Incubator Farm
Incubator farm serving African immigrants in MN

Hearltand Farmlink

Beginning Farmers, Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Land Access : Outgoing Farmers
Serving farmers in Ohio

Community Crops Growing Farmers Training Program

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farming Systems : Incubator Farm
Growing Farmers Core Skills Workshop series takes participants through an entire growing season starting with greenhouse propagation in February and finishing with season extension and overwintering in September. Lincoln, NE.

Michigan State University Farm Business Incubator Program

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farming Systems : Incubator Farm

Sinsinawa Mound Collaborative Farm

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farming Systems : Incubator Farm
Incubator Farm in WI

Ag Plan

Beginning Farmers, Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farm Business : General
free online tool offered by the University of Minnesota to help farmers write a viable business plan.

Farm Beginnings

Beginning Farmers, Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farm Business : General
farm business planning course offered by the Land Stewardship Project

Liberty Prairie Foundation Farmer Training Program

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farming Systems : Incubator Farm
Incubator farm near Chicago

Farmland Access Hub

Beginning Farmers, Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Land Access : Outgoing Farmers
Serving beginning farmers in MN, WI, & IA

Marbleseed Land Link

Beginning Farmers, Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Land Access : Outgoing Farmers
free resource to connect land owners and land seekers

Windy City Harvest

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farming Systems : Incubator Farm
Urban Farming Incubator in Chicago

EarthDance Organic Farm School

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farming Systems : Incubator Farm
EarthDance provides beyond-the-basics education and hands-on training to meet the needs of budding gardeners, beginning farmers, youth, and “agri-curious” community members.

Cornell Small Farm Courses

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farm Business : General
free online courses for aspiring, new, and experienced farmers

Feed Iowa First

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farming Systems : Incubator Farm
Connects landless individuals with a background in agriculture, to fertile land in the area…while removing all barriers of entry that exist.

Nettle Valley Farm

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farming Systems : Incubator Farm
Incubator farm in Spring Grove MN

Greenhorns Guide Books

Beginning Farmers, Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farm Business : General
free online guide books provide useful information about farming, farm business and land access

Land Stewardship Project: Farmland Clearinghouse

Beginning Farmers, Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Land Access : Outgoing Farmers
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Land For Good Farm Link

Beginning Farmers, Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Land Access : Outgoing Farmers
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Pushing the Envelope Farm

Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Farming Systems : Incubator Farm
Incubator Farm in Geneva, IL.

Farmland Access Legal Tooklit

Beginning Farmers, Land Access : Incoming Farmers, Land Access : Outgoing Farmers
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