New Entry's farmer library has hundreds of resources on sustainable farming, marketing, and operating a successful small business. Our physical library at our office in Beverly, MA contains books, CD's, DVD's periodicals, pamphlets, and videos in English, Spanish, Hmong, and Khmer. You can also search the directory below for downloadable digital resources, helpful web sites, and online farming videos.
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This workshop gives the trainer an opportunity to explain what a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is and walks through an SOP for when to wash your hands, how to wash your hands, and what produce to wash. It also introduces some common vocabulary around the wash station so that farmers and trainers can start to use the same language. The workshop goes on to set up a common harvest and post-harvest handling SOP for greens and for roots, which then can be hung up in the wash station to remind farmers of the proper SOP to follow.
Organized into a series of independent Fact Sheets, this guide allows you to explore topics as needed or follow along as a complete resource, content Includes:
Getting Started: Learn about farming education, finding a suitable farm, and essential infrastructure.
Financing and Risk Management: Explore options for financing farm operations, managing risks, and understanding insurance needs.
This guide will help you use the ‘Income and Expenses Tool’ with farmers. The tool is an Excel spreadsheet, intended to be used one-on-one with a farmer and a program staff person. This tool can be used after a farmer has completed at least one selling season, or it can be used to make an estimated budget for the upcoming year. This teaching resource was developed by Global Gardens in Boise, Idaho in partnership with the Institute for Social and Economic Development (ISED Solutions). Refugee farmer training programs across the country provided feedback on this lesson, which is now integrated throughout the guide.
This document was prepared by the Center for Environmental Farming Systems as a resource through the Bring New Farmers to the Table Project. This document serves as a strategic guide for Incubator farms to utilize when seeking start-up funds.
Spread sheet that provides a financial model for a 25 acre incubator farm. Includes calculations for start up funds, salaries and wages, expenses, and projected sales.
Lease agreement template between the Intervale Center and a participating farm. The Intervale Center will lease farmland, storage space, equipment, greenhouses, water wells, water pumps and other farming tools to the farm.
