Mission

Land For Good’s mission is to expand secure farmland access, tenure, and transfer.

We connect, assist, and engage farmers, landowners, service providers, communities, and policymakers to grow equitable farming opportunity and sustainably keep land in agriculture. We work across scales, from individual support to federal policy, to improve how farmers get onto, hold, and transfer farms. 

Vision

We envision a vibrant landscape of working farms managed by diverse farmers. Entire communities will benefit from increased farming opportunity, climate resilience, healthy lands, and a more secure food supply. We are committed to these values: collaboration, integrity, justice, and farmer-centered.

Strategies 

1. Expand farmland availability: Empower landowners (farming and non-farming) to offer farming opportunities, conduct more farm transfers, and increase the availability of farmland acres for New England farmers that is: 

• Available in sufficient quantity, suitable locations, accessible, and findable;
• Appropriate for farming by providing quality soils, housing, infrastructure, etc;
• Secure, providing long-term tenure to be able to make investments in the business and the land;
• Affordable whether for purchase or rent; and
• Just and equitable, with mutually beneficial rights and responsibilities for all parties.

2. Embody our equity and justice commitment: Deepen cultural awareness and competency within Land For Good staff and board, and enhance relational connections with BIPOC-led/supporting organizations and communities in New England. This is an important piece of addressing historical and current systemic injustice and racism present in the farming and food system. The farming and food economy only works if it works for everyone. 

3. Improve access/transfer methods & farm viability: Strengthen resilience and viability of New England farmers (and the farming sector) by increasing the number of farmers with improved land tenure, through innovation and a variety of access/transfer methods. In particular, we want to see an increase in the number of BIPOC and limited-resource farmers who are able to access and secure land.

4. Enhance networks of support:  Enhance the ability of service providers, organizations, and networks to support farmers’ and landowners’ farmland access and transfer needs, in New England and nationally. There will be a robust farmland access and transfer network to support farmers and landowners.

5. Advance organizational sustainability: Explore and advance new fundraising mechanisms that create sustainable funding resources for the organization, to create a baseline funding source that includes operational & overhead expenses. This will create more financial stability and increase organizational sustainability, which is a requirement for us to keep doing our work.