NYFC works with local partners across the country to offer full-day, in-depth trainings for farmers on the process of accessing land and partnering with a land trust, as well as brief single-issue workshops on topics including:

• Using NYFC’s Finding Farmland Calculator
• Searching for and evaluating farmland to buy or lease
• Working with a land trust
• Financial and business planning
• Lending programs for beginning farmers
• State agricultural land policy

Since 2014, we have provided tools and training to over 800 farmers and ranchers around the country.

If you are interested in working with us to hold a training in your region, contact our Land Access team.

Access to farmland remains one of the biggest barriers that beginning farmers face, but innovation and leadership demonstrated by a number of land trusts has opened up new possibilities for helping these farmers succeed. NYFC believes that these groups have enormous potential to make farmland across the country more affordable and accessible for the next generation of farmers.

Since 2014, we’ve teamed up with experts in farmland conservation to offer a series of Land Access Innovations Trainings for land trust staff and other conservation professionals with a high degree of commitment to protecting working farms and keeping land affordable for farmers. The trainings provide an opportunity for participants to learn from land trust staff, lawyers, and appraisers about innovative strategies and tools being used to ensure farmland stays in production and in the hands of farmers.

Following each training, all participants have access to our Dropbox folder of resources along with our Land Access Innovations listserv—an email discussion group we facilitate to connect organizations and individuals that are implementing working farmland conservation projects. The Dropbox and listerv provide access to information on funding strategies, monitoring and enforcement, legal considerations, and model documents on working farm easements and ground leases.

Since 2014, NYFC has trained over 100 land trusts and other conservation organizations across the country. You can read a post about our first national Land Access Innovations Training for land trusts here, and find more information about the tools and strategies we discuss in our case studies here.

If you are interested in working with us to hold a training in your region, contact our Land Access team.