Leadership development

6.3.24 // 6:00pm to 8.9.24 // 8:00pm

Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture

Participants will gain hands-on experience in sustainable farming practices. This hands-on course will cover soil health, greenhouse management, plant health, disease management and much more! This practicum isn't just about planting seeds – it's about planting the seeds of your future!

11.3.23 // 1:00pm to 2:00pm

FIELD Network - Monthly Networking Session - Curriculum Frameworks for Farm Incubators

Join the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project and the FIELD Network to connect with staff of land-based farm incubator and apprenticeship training programs!

8.14.23 // Heather Quinn

Healthy beginnings: Incubator programs give new farmers a strong start.

Farm incubators are designed to give beginning farmers access to land, training, equipment and other resources. The goal of these programs is to help new farmers overcome the many barriers to starting out in agriculture.

5.5.23 // 1:00pm to 2:00pm

FIELD Network - Monthly Networking Session - Assessing Farmer Progress toward Meeting Goals

Join us to connect with staff of land-based farm incubator and apprenticeship training programs!

4.7.23 // 1:00pm to 2:00pm

FIELD Network - Monthly Networking Session

Connect and share strategies and challenges with staff of land-based farm incubator and apprenticeship training programs!

11.4.20 // 4:00pm to 11.8.20 // 5:00pm

National FIELD School

Join us for our 9th Annual National FIELD School - November 4 - 8th online in partnership with Carolina Farm Stewardship Association's Sustainable Agriculture Conference.

NIFTI Fact Sheet: Advocacy Guide

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  • Digital Download

Tips for advocating for beginning farmers in local food policy. This fact sheet is based off a webinar that New Entry Sustainable Farming Project and the Johns Hopkins Food Policy Network hosted in July 2017. The webinar explored how local food policy efforts can raise awareness of the needs of beginning farmers and create conditions favorable to help new farm businesses succeed. Advocates from three organizations described their recent initiatives and successes to support beginning farmers and provided tips on how to make the next generation of farmers and ranchers a policy priority. This fact sheet summarizes the shared tips. 

Prior Teaching, Training & Coaching Experience

This worksheet, developed by the New England Small Farms Institute, will help a prospective mentor evaluate their teaching skills and experience.

Farm Task Signup

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  • Digital Download

When “everyone” is responsible for tasks, often no one ends up doing them. We created these sign-up sheets for farmers to take individual responsibility for doing jobs around the farm and to have public (group) accountability. Farmers sign-up for tasks ahead of time (especially for time sensitive tasks such as watering). Introducing these tasks sheets and teaching farmers to use them will help ensure their use. This structure of using task sheets may have success if introduced at an early stage of the program.

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