Project Overview
One of the most pervasive and persistent challenge beginning farmers in NJ face is finding, affording and negotiating appropriate farmland to lease or to own.
The long-term goal this project, "Launching Beginning Farmers: Long-Term Preserved Farm Leases and Farm Success Training" is to significantly increase beginning farmers/ranchers' access to long-term lease agreements on preserved farmland. This project is expanding an innovative land-access pilot program and providing extensive training and technical assistance for beginning farmers and ranchers in both urban and rural New Jersey communities to succeed in their farm businesses.
Because diversity and equity are values of our organization and this program, we are working with our urban agriculture partners to do special outreach to beginning farmers/ranchers from BIPOC and socially disadvantaged communities to make sure they are informed of the program's opportunities.
Besides providing affordable access to land in a 10-year lease, we are providing guidance and support to help these beginning farmers be successful by connecting them to resources. Through this grant, we are providing on-going training for beginning farmers/ranchers who have launched their farm enterprise on Financial Management, Business Management, Safety, Marketing, Direct-to-Consumer Sales; Farm-to-Institution Sales; Surplus Food Management, and On Farm Skills.
Number of Participants: 236
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