Small Farm Business

Helps farmers and ranchers protect their land, produce a healthier environment and build successful communities.

Works to strengthen the connections between farms and the community, by creating and running programs that link farmers, community members, and markets.

Aspiring farmers who come together to build and empower communities by working side by side. Crop mob is also a group of experienced farmers and gardeners willing to share their knowledge with their peers and the next generation of agrarians. The membership is dynamic, changing and growing with each new "mob" event.

Independent, non-governmental, voluntary organization governed by and representing farm and ranch families united for the purpose of analyzing their problems and formulating action to achieve educational improvement, economic opportunity and social advancement and, thereby, to promote the national well-being. Local, county, state, national and international in its scope and influence.

For farmers and consumers defending the right to buy and protecting the right to sell nutritious food directly from the farm.

Seeks to strengthen farmers markets’ capacity to serve farmers, consumers, and communities by providing the rapidly growing movement with information and representation at state and federal levels. Help build networks, link peers, and connect farmers markets with tools and resources for success.

Nonprofit law center dedicated to providing legal services to family farmers and their rural communities in order to help keep family farmers on the land.

Nonprofit organization offering education and assistance to owners and managers of working lands, entering farmers, and other-land use decision-makers in the six New England states.

Locate a Land Trust in your area. Investigate opportunities for farming on protected farmland.

The only agricultural law research and information facility that is independent, national in scope, and directly connected to the national agricultural information network. Coverage includes food law as it recognizes the expanding scope of agricultural law and its convergence with food law topics.

Non profit, professional organization whose mission is to lead, promote, and support growth in agricultural and rural broadcasting for the benefit of our members, audience, and industry.

Protect and enhance the economic well-being and quality of life for family farmers, ranchers and rural communities through advocating grassroots-driven policy positions adopted by its membership.

Brings together all parts of the rapidly emerging good food system – producers, buyers, distributors, advocates, investors and funders – to create a community dedicated to scaling up good food sourcing and access.

Find access to skilled and experienced farmers who offer education, guidance, moral support and encouragement to trainees that they host on their farms.

Collaborative dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system through networking and innovative partnerships.