Farmer Training Resources

• Best Practices of CRAFT Farmer Alliances in North America
• Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA)

• ATTRA/National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service

• Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association

• Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Grow a Farmer 

• Community Food Security Coalition

• Ecological Farming Association

• Ecology Action – Grow Biointensive

• Illinois Farm Beginnings

• Land Stewardship Project -- Farm Beginnings Collaborative

• Local Harvest

• Michael Fields Agricultural Institute

• Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Services

• National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

• Northeast Organic Farming Association

• Organic Farming Research Foundation

• Rodale Institute – New Farm

• SARE/Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education

• Start2Farm.gov

• USDA New Farmers  

Farmer Mentor Resources

• NOFA- NY Documents for On-Farm Mentors and Host Farmers  

• New England Small Farm Institute for Farm Mentors 

• Carolina Farm Stewardship Association: A Handbook for Mentor Farmers

Farm Beginnings Programs

• The Land Connection, serving central Illinois.

• Angelic Organics Learning Center, serving northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.

• Food Works, serving southern Illinois, SE Missouri, SW Indiana, and NE Kentucky.

• Land Stewardship Project, serving Minnesota, Wisconsin, and NE Iowa.

• Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society, serving Nebraska.

• Hawthorne Valley Farm, serving New York Hudson Valley region.

• Dakota Rural Action, serving South Dakota.

• FARRMS, serving North Dakota.

• Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, serving Maine