Project Overview
Practical Farmers of Iowa is leading the Exploring,
Establishing and Enhancing Farm Entrepreneurs through Decision Making,
Farmer-to-Farmer Training and Networking Building project to equip the next
generation of Iowa beginning farmers to start and sustain successful farm
businesses, to help preserve Iowa's farming legacy of food production, resource
stewardship and rural community vitality. This project is designed realizing
that beginning farmers need different support and resources as they move
through three different stages within their first 10 years of farming. This
project is creating programming and curricula to train, educate and inform
aspiring and beginning farmer in each stage of farming. Each series provides
business planning for decision-making, farmer-to-farmer training, and
farmer-to-farmer peer support tailored each of the following stages.
• Explore Farming
series is tailored to aspiring farmers (not yet farming).
• Establish Farming
series is tailored to start-up farmers (0 to 5 years experience).
• Enhance Your Farm
series is tailored to intermediate farmers (6 to 10 years experience).
In
the first year of this project, 22 farmers will report they were able to start
farming, and 2 will report they were able to strengthen their farm businesses
as a result of project activities. In addition, partner organizations will have
accessed the Exploring, Establishing and Enhancing Farmer Training curriculum
tool kit created during this project, and will have received coaching from PFI
staff on how to use the curriculum tool kit to help beginning farmers start and
improve farms in their regions.
Number of Participants: 97
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