Survey – Help Understand Beginning Farmer Knowledge Networks

NYFC would like to help researchers and other organizations better understand how to help beginning farmers!  Below is information on a survey on organic farmer knowledge networks.  If you have the time, please fill out the survey to help. My name is Emily and I am a senior at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA. I am finishing my undergraduate study in Sociology and Urban & Environmental Policy. Help me with my senior thesis by completing... Read More

Northeast Farmers: Your Input Is Needed for UVM Curriculum Development

The UVM Extension New Farmer Project is seeking funding to develop a tractor education curriculum and train-the-trainer project that will be broadly available to help provide basic tractor safety, basic use and maintenance, and decision-making education to Northeast small scale and diversified farms. They are proposing to offer training that uses a variety of in-person and online formats to prepare participants to deliver tractor education for beginning... Read More

The latest scoop on the Young Farmer movement from GOOD

GOOD just published a new article by Jeff Gangemi, of FarmPlate.com, about NYFC’s fight to improve government ag policies: “The NYFC is currently lobbying Congress to roll back a proposed 50 percent cut to The Beginning Rancher and Farmer Development Program, and to provide $5 million a year in mandatory funding for the Individual Development Account Program, which sets aside matching funds for beginning and apprentice farmers. “While... Read More

Can rural policy promote agriculture and still attract women and young people?

This blog post is an appeal to all young and beginning farmers to help out by taking this quick survey. Between 2007 and 2008 I had the opportunity to live in Norway. I spent some of my time planting potatoes and some of it visiting the Centre for Rural Research in Trondheim.  Wherever I went people were saying something that we hear in the U.S. too— that it’s hard to keep young people in rural areas.  In Norway they have a gendered perspective... Read More