How to acquire land
Where Do I Start? Acquiring Land To Farm short guide/worksheet- Steps to Acquiring a Farm or Farmland diagram
- Acquiring Your Farm 2.0 (beta), an online tutorial for farm seekers
- Successfully Acquiring Your Farm, Beginning Farmer Network of MA blog
- New England Farmland Finder online property clearinghouse
Land access
- Cooperative Holding of Land, Chapter 5 in Cooperative Farming, a Greenhorns guidebook
- Successful Farming on a Land Cooperative a farmer’s story
- Agricultural Land Tenure Curriculum, Farm LASTS Project
- Acccess to Land, an archived Farmland Advisors Project webinar
- Access to Land, K. Ruhf in The Natural Farmer (Winter 2002-2003)
Leases and leasing
- Toolbox for Leasing Farmland, resources for farm seekers and landowners
Assessing land and farm infrastructure
- NEW! Vermont Natural Resource Atlas Mapping Tutorial (VT)
- GranitView II (NH) maps soils, flooding hazards and more
- Using the NRCS Web Pages to Get Soils Information, Maryland FarmLINK Guide
- Web Soil Survey, Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Area Calculator Tool by Google Maps or PlaniMeter by ACME
- Rental Assessment Checklist, UVM and Intervale Center. A checklist guide to examine a prospective farm property for lease or for purchase.
Related links
- New Entry Sustainable Farming Project (MA) website
- Equity Trust website
- Holding Ground: A Guide to Northeast Farmland Tenure and Stewardship, purchase at New England Small Farm Institute
- UVM Extension New Farmer Project website and Land Access and Tenure Toolshed
- Finding Land to Farm: Six ways to Secure Farmland by The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service – ATTRA
- Finding a Farm to Buy or Lease (Guide to Farming in NY #1), Northeast Beginning Farmers Project
- Greenhorns Land Access Resources on finding sustainable land tenure by Cornell University Cooperative Extension
- Land resource page, NESFI
- Access to Land website of Partnership for America’s New Farmers
*Thanks to The Greenhorns, The Ohio State University Extension, the University of Vermont’s Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and Cuyahoga Valley Countryside Initiative for permission to upload their documents.
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