Project Overview
Weathering Change: Holistic Farm Training for Financial and Environmental Resilience has provided financial management training, climate change education, and land-based technical assistance to new and beginning farmers in the central and upper Midwest. This project serves primarily farmers who implement or plan to implement regenerative practices including pasture-based livestock production, diversified vegetable production, or a combination of the two. As a result of this project, beginning farmers and ranchers will have the tools to manage viable and economically stable farm businesses, will become more resilient to climate change-induced weather changes, and will produce high quality food using regenerative farming practices.
This project has been overseen and implemented by Project Directors Jackie de Batista and Kate Larson of Farmers Rising (formerly Angelic Organics Learning Center), and Jessica Roosa of This Old Farm, Inc., along with collaborating staff at both organizations. Farmers Rising and This Old Farm have worked together as part of the Routes to Farm alliance of farmer training organizations for 6 years. This innovative collaboration has expanded our collective reach to benefit new and beginning farmers in N. Illinois, S. Wisconsin, Indiana, W. Ohio and N. Kentucky, and combines the successes of a long-term non-profit farmer training program based in farmer-led, sustainable agriculture education with a business savvy, market-informed for-profit meat processing facility with first hand knowledge of the direct connection between production management and product quality. Together, we have provided cutting-edge support for regenerative innovation in our region.
Number of Participants: 190
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