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Where Do I Start? Making My Land Available for Farming

Short worksheet focusing on big picture thinking and a framework to examine land goals, current situation, and other considerations.
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Webinar Series: Make Your Land Available for Farming, Part 1

Focus: Discover the benefits of making your land available for farming.

Understand your land’s potential for farming, learn what goes into a good farming arrangement, and explore strategies for making any amount of land available to a farmer. Hosted by Land For Good together with the New England Farm Link Collaborative.
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Webinar Series: Make Your Land Available for Farming, Part 2

Focus: Learn different methods & approaches to making your land available for farming.

Understand your land’s potential for farming, learn what goes into a good farming arrangement, and explore strategies for making any amount of land available to a farmer. Hosted by Land For Good together with the New England Farm Link Collaborative.
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Elements of a Good Farm Lease

List of important items to consider with a farm lease.
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Elementos de un buen contrato de arrendamiento de granja

Lista de elementos importantes a considerar con un contrato de arrendamiento de finca.
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Short-term Lease Template

A helpful example of elements to include and language used in a short term farm lease.
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Modelo de Contrato de Arrendamiento de granja a Corto plazo

Un ejemplo de elementos a incluir y lenguaje utilizado en un arrendamiento agrícola a corto plazo.
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Example Farm Lease with Option to Purchase

An example of elements to include and language used in a farm lease with option to purchase.
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Ejemplo de Contrato de Arrendamiento Agrícola con Opción de Compra

Un ejemplo de lenguaje utilizado en un arrendamiento de finca con opción a compra.
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Toward Land Justice: Actions White Farmland Owners Can Take

A guide for landowners who want to do something with their land to advance social justice, and promote equity and opportunity. The guide offers historical context, guiding questions, and explores options for making farmland available. It is one contribution to the evolving exploration of how farmland access can be made more equitable. While not directed at farmers, they may also benefit from the guide’s ideas and resources.
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Liability and Insurance in a Farm Lease

Short guide on farm risk, liability, and insurance that answers landowners’ and tenants’ common concerns.
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A Landowner’s Guide to Leasing Land for Farming

Guidebook to assist landowners to make land available for farming by others.
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Build-A-Lease Tool 

Generate a working lease document to share with landowners, tenants, and advisors. Includes leasing definitions, helpful FAQs, sample language, and fill-in space for the most common sections of a farm lease. Templates are not a legal document nor should they replace legal advice from an attorney.
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Nuts and Bolts of Farmland Leasing

Webinar on farmland leasing basics by Land For Good, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, and Legal Food Hub.
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A Lease Agreements Guide for Farmers and Landowners

An overview of leasing steps, current use property taxation, rights, obligations, and more. Vermont Land Link.
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Farm Leases and Rents in Family Farm Series Publications: Farm Management

Overview publication covering different types of leases and lease payment calculations. Family Farm Series of UC Davis. 
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AgLease101.org

Resource links for Midwestern states, but widely applicable.
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Farmland Leasing for Private Landowners

Brief introduction to the issues you need to think about and the issues involved in renting land to a farmer.
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Farmland Access Legal Toolkit

Helping farmers and landowners affordably access, transfer, and conserve farmland. Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School.
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Leasing Land to Farmers: A Handbook for New England Land Trusts, Municipalities and Institutions

Guidebook to help land trusts, municipalities and institutions such as schools, churches and nonprofit organizations that own farmland to keep that land in production — or bring it into production — by leasing it to farmers.
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Farm Evaluation Checklist

Checklist of considerations for location, land, infrastructure, climate and housing.
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Farm Rental Agreement Checklist

Ohio State University Extension
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Lease Mediation – Landowners

Worksheet with questions for landowners to consider when working toward quality, durable leases.

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Cash Lease Template

Customizable lease template with blanks to fill-in. By California Farm Link
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How to Determine the Right Farm Rental Rate

A guide to support farmers and landowners through the process of determining a fair cash rental rate for farmland, equipment and infrastructure in Vermont. The same methods might apply to other states. UVM Extension New Farmer Project, (2014).
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Inspirations for Creating a Long-Term Agricultural Lease for Agroforestry

Unique guide about long-term leases involving agroforestry, including ways to account for the value of perennial crops and trees. Farm Commons and the Savanna Institute. 
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Tools & Resources for Supporting BIPOC Farmers in Your Community

Webinar for municipalities, land trusts, and non-profits working to become a stronger ally for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color and advance equity-based land access partnerships and projects. Maine Farmland Trust, American Farmland Trust, Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust, Southeast Land Trust NH, Vermont Housing & Conservation Board.
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Faithlands Toolkit

Guide to transformative land use that supports partnerships between farmers, faith communities, and food systems in celebration of our interconnectedness to one another. Faithlands is an interfaith collaboration led by Agrarian Trust.
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Managing Landlord-Tenant Relationships: A Strategic Perspective

Substantive article that offers guidelines and strategies towards a successful landlord-tenant relationship. Ohio State University Extension. 
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Successful Farming on a Land Cooperative

One farmer’s story of a successful cooperative venture.
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Cooperative Holding of Land

Cooperative Farmland Holding (chapter 5 in the Greenhorns guidebook entitled Cooperative Farming) explains the methods by which farmers can hold land together highlighting legal and social considerations, tenure options, leasing scenarios, and ownership.
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Holding Ground: A Guide to Northeast Farmland Tenure and Stewardship

A comprehensive classic guide. New England Small Farm Institute.
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New England Farmland Finder

The region’s largest farm link website with more than 4,000 subscribers and growing. Farm seekers can search property postings and subscribe for weekly updates of new postings. Landowners can post a property at no charge.
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New England Farm Link Collaborative

Organizations that help build awareness, farmer and landowner readiness, and connections among farm seekers, farmers and landowners of all types across New England.
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How to Create Effective Online Property Postings for Farm Link Websites

Guide for landowners to create accurate and appealing online farm property postings specifically focusing on how to convey information most relevant for farmers.
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Maine Farm Link

A linking service with customized support that connects farm seekers with Maine farmland owners who are looking to sell or lease their land. Maine Farmland Trust.
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Vermont Land Link

A linking service with individualized technical assistance to help farm seekers and Vermont farm property holders find each other. Intervale Center.
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Connecticut Farm Link

A linking service with individualized technical assistance that connects farm seekers with Connecticut farmland owners who are looking to sell or lease their land. Connecticut Department of Agriculture, Connecticut Farmland Trust.
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New England Farm Link Program Guide

Guide explains New England’s four farm link programs – Vermont Land Link, Maine Farm Link, Connecticut Farm Link and New England Farmland Finder – and what each program offers.
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National list of farm link programs

If you are looking for property outside of New England, visit American Farmland Trust’s national list of farm link programs.
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Using the NRCS Web Pages to Get Soils Information

Guide for using NRCS website, the nation’s most comprehensive source for soils information. Maryland FarmLINK Guide.
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GranitView

New Hampshire’s Statewide Geographic Information System of topographic maps including soils, flooding hazards, water resources, and more. University of New Hampshire.
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Vermont Natural Resources Atlas

Vermont’s geographic information about environmental features and sites. Vermont Agency of Natural Resources.

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Vermont Natural Resource Atlas Mapping Tutorial

Blog introduction about how to navigate this natural resource atlas with link to the full tutorial.
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RIDEM Map Room

Interactive map resources viewable through the ArcGIS Online map viewer. Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.
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RIDEM Environmental Resource Map

Rhode Island’s interactive map resources viewable through the ArcGIS Online map viewer. Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.
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UC Davis SoilWeb

Interactive map explores USDA-National Cooperative Soil Survey data for locations throughout most of the US. UC Davis, NRCS. For additional support refer to Land For Good’s introduction tutorial.

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UC Davis SoilWeb Tutorial

Introduction to the SoilWeb tool with tips from Land For Good staff.

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NRCS Web Soil Survey

Authoritative source of soil survey information. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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How to Determine Land Area and Distance With Your Smartphone

Article from On Pasture about how to use GeoMeasure, an app for iOS and Android smartphones.
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Area Calculator Tool

Useful tools to calculate the area of a parcel or field. Google Maps or PlaniMeter by ACME.
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Google My Maps tutorial

Tips from our staff to create custom maps and easily calculate acreage to assess properties, look at boundaries, etc.
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