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Farm Beginnings®
Sowing the Seeds for New and Transitional Farmers with Training
and Support
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Cultivating New Farmers
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WHAT IS FARM BEGINNINGS®Cultivating New Farmers
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Farm Beginnings®
• Farm Beginnings® is a year-long training and support program for beginning and transitioning farmers
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Farm Beginnings®
• Provides training and hands-on learning opportunities – Classroom sessions– Farm workshops and
tours– Mentorships
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Farm Beginnings®
• Values Clarification• Goal Setting • Business Planning• Marketing• Networking
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Farm Beginnings®
• Farmers and other agricultural professionals, including Extension educators, serve as the primary presenters, mentors and steering committee members
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OVERVIEW AND HISTORYWho will be farming the land in the next generation?
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History of Farm Beginnings®
• Meetings with Land Stewardship Project farmer members – Wabasha County Give-A-Dams – need for beginning farmer training
• The Land Stewardship Project held the first class held in 1997-1998
• Over 380 individuals have graduated from LSP Farm Beginnings® - over 60% of respondents* indicated that they were farming
* From a 2005 survey
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Expansion of Farm Beginnings®
• In 2005, Land Stewardship Project received a grant from NCR SARE Professional Development Grant Program to train other organizations
• Four Programs– Illinois (2) – Missouri– Nebraska
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Illinois Farm Beginnings®
• Two Programs– Central Illinois Farm Beginnings®
• The Land Connection• University of Illinois Extension• http://central.illinoisfarmbeginnings.org
– Stateline Farm Beginnings®• Angelic Organics Learning Center• http://learngrowconnect.org/what/training/stateline
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Current Farm Beginning Programs®
– Illinois• Central Illinois• Stateline-Northern Illinois/Southern Wisconsin
– Minnesota• Lake Superior (NW Wisconsin/NE Minnesota)
– Lake Superior Sustainable Farming Association
• Land Stewardship Project – Driftless Region (SE MN, Western WI, NE Iowa)– Prairie Region (Western MN, SE S. Dak., NW Iowa)
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Current Farm Beginning Programs®
– Nebraska– University of Nebraska Lincoln Extension– Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society– Center for Rural Affairs– Nebraska RC&D’s
– New York • Hawthorne Valley Farm
– North Dakota• Foundation for Agricultural and Rural Resources
Management and Sustainability (FARRMS)
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Current Farm Beginning Programs®
– South Dakota• Dakota Rural Action
– Wisconsin • Stateline-Northern Illinois/Southern Wisconsin• Lake Superior-NW Wisconsin/NE Minnesota• Land Stewardship Project - Driftless Region (SE MN,
Western WI, NE Iowa)
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FARM BEGINNINGS® COLLABORATIVEFarm Beginnings® Programs working together
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What is the Farm Beginnings® Collaborative?
• Coalition of organizations that run Farm Beginnings programs® and work with a farmer-to-farmer educational model
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Purpose of the Farm Beginnings® Collaborative?
• Share best practices• Offer mentorship to new and emerging
programs• Educational and governing body to shape
common evaluation and educational materials.
• Awarded a CSREES Beginning Farmer and Ranched Development Program Educational Enhancement Grant
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Farm Beginnings® Collaborative Working Together to…
• Define common mission, vision, and principles• Implement common evaluation components• Support farmer associations connected with
each individual program• Share program materials among
organizational partners
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Farm Beginnings® Collaborative Working Together to…
• Strengthen and broaden the training process, model transfer, and successful implementation for Farm Beginnings®, CRAFT* and Farm Dreams
• Strengthen advanced farmer training areas that address barriers facing FB graduates in years 2-5 of farm start-up
*Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training
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Farm Beginnings® Collaborative Working Together to…
• Explore long-term economic viability of the FB Collaborative
• Provide professional development opportunities for staff of each organization in the collaborative
• Raise awareness of Farm Beginnings® and FB Collaborative
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Thanks!
• Karen Stettler, Land Stewardship Project• Terra Brockman, The Land Connection• Kathy McGroarty-Torres, The Land Connection
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Deborah Cavanaugh-GrantUniversity of Illinois ExtensionExtension SpecialistSmall Farm and Sustainable AgricultureSARE CoordinatorCentral Illinois Farm Beginnings®Co-facilitator
P.O. Box 410Greenview, IL [email protected]/smallfarm