Beginning Farmers Beginning Farmers - Practical Tools for Successful Family Farming Beginningfarmers.org Founder Taylor Reid is Leaving the Site After More Than 13 Years I started beginningfarmers.org in 2008 while I was a Doctoral student at Michigan State University studying the motivations and learning processes of first generation farmers. My first blog post in 2008 noted that "We are currently witnessing a loss of family farms, an aging population of farmers, and an increasingly global and consolidated food system, all of which create concerns about food security, the health of rural com ..read more

Beginning Farmers Beginning Farmers - Practical Tools for Successful Family Farming White Oak Farm & Education Center Assistant Farm Manager Position in Oregon - 2022 White Oak Farm is hiring a new Assistant Farm Manager to start work March 1, 2022.  We are an organic farm and environmental education center located on 62 acres in the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon.  We are looking for an experienced farmer to join our staff in a leadership position for the season and possibly beyond.  The position will be available early spring of 2022 and include housing on the ..read more

Beginning Farmers Beginning Farmers - Practical Tools for Successful Family Farming $50 Million Awarded for Beginning Farmer Training, NCAT's AgriSolar Clearinghouse, New Hires at NSAC, and More News from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Over $50 Million Awarded to Train Next-Generation Farmers and Ranchers The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) applauds all the organizations awarded grants for the critical work they do to support next-generation farmers and ranchers, especially those farmer and community-based organizations who work directly with beginning farmer ..read more

Beginning Farmers Beginning Farmers - Practical Tools for Successful Family Farming Upper Midwest CRAFT Farmer Training Membership 2022 Upper Midwest CRAFT (Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training) is a farmer-led training alliance organized by alternative agriculture farmers in the Stateline region: northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, and Chicagoland.  ​We welcome all levels of experience, whether you’ve never farmed before, you seek advanced training, or you’re transitioning to sustainable agriculture. Upper Midwest CRAFT Farmer Training is built upon the practice ..read more

Beginning Farmers Beginning Farmers - Practical Tools for Successful Family Farming 2022 Young Farmer Grant Program Applications Opening This Week! We are excited to share with you that the third year of applications for the National Young Farmer Coalition's Young Farmer Grant Program opened on December 10th, 2022!  Each Spring since 2020, with the support of Chipotle, we've provided 50 farmers and ranchers with $5,000 grants to support their farming goals. Grant recipients also receive a one-year membership to the National Young Farmers Coalition. You'll find that the p ..read more

Beginning Farmers Beginning Farmers - Practical Tools for Successful Family Farming USDA Loan Guarantee Program to Create More Market Opportunities, Promote Competition and Strengthen America’s Food Supply Chain This USDA Loan Guarantee Program Will Unlock Approximately $1 Billion for Meat and Poultry Processors and Food Supply Chain Infrastructure   U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that USDA is deploying $100 million under the new Food Supply Chain Guaranteed Loan Program to make available nearly $1 billion in loan guarantees; these lo ..read more

Beginning Farmers Beginning Farmers - Practical Tools for Successful Family Farming FUTURE HARVEST CASA IS NOW ACCEPTING SIGN-UPS FOR THREE NEW FARMER STUDY CIRCLES Future Harvest Study Circles are intimate gatherings of 5-10 farmers, in-person and/or online, where like-minded and like-scaled farmers share experiences and challenges and engage in group oriented problem-solving. These farmer study circles are supported by a skilled farmer facilitator. Deadline for sign-ups is Friday, January 7th, 2021 at 5pmIn 2022 we are offering the following three new study circles for farmers in ..read more

Beginning Farmers Beginning Farmers - Practical Tools for Successful Family Farming 2022 Internship with housing at Slice of Heaven Farm in Sandy, Oregon. Do you want to reconnect with nature and learn the crucial skills of growing your own food? Think you want to be a farmer? Experience a full season on our farm and truly see what it takes to be a market farmer and run a farm. A season at Slice of Heaven Farm is a unique and memorable experience. Position dates: April 1st, 2022 to October 31st, 2022 Small farming is revolutionary work. If that statement doesn’t speak to you in some way ..read more

Beginning Farmers Beginning Farmers - Practical Tools for Successful Family Farming Intensive Organic Courses in Michigan - January 2022 from the Michigan Organic Food and Farm Alliance (MOFFA) MOFFA Organic Intensives is a day-long concentrated learning experience for farmers, serious gardeners and anyone passionate about what they eat. For 2022, we are proud to host a mix of local experts, farmers and growers presenting the following frequently requested topics for out intensive organic courses :       The Farm Ecosystem:  Managing for ..read more

Beginning Farmers Beginning Farmers - Practical Tools for Successful Family Farming Full Time Job on a Heritage Farm in Virginia – 2022 Mount Pleasant Foundation is seeking a farmer with experience in pasture-based animal husbandry and/or market garden scale vegetable production. Mount Pleasant is a private, historic plantation located in Surry County, Virginia, a ferry ride from Colonial Williamsburg. The mission of the foundation is to maintain a highly diverse, sustainable agricultural operation that preserves and promotes the heritage breeds of livestock that were endemic to early American ..read more