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Where Do I Start? Acquiring Land To Farm

Short worksheet to think about your farming goals.
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Adquiriendo terreno para cultivar. ¿Por dónde empiezo? 

Breve hoja de trabajo para pensar en sus objetivos agrícolas.
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How To Find, Assess and Secure Farmland

Plain language guide provides clear, straightforward, and accessible text to help you confidently act upon what is learned. LFG and New Entry Sustainable Farming Project.
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Cómo Encontrar, Evaluar y Conseguir Tierras de Cultivo

Una guía de lenguaje llano. LFG and New Entry Sustainable Farming Project.
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Farm Access Methods Guide

Decision guide that stands out in its organized and practical way of understanding and assessing land access methods.
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Farm Access Decision Tool

Summary and companion piece to Farm Access Methods Guide to help you compare methods to access land.
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Herramienta de decisión sobre el acceso a las granjas

Comparar formas de acceder a las tierras de cultivo.
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Accessing Farmland Together

Guidebook and decision tool if considering group farming.
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Obteniendo Tierras Juntes

Guía útil si se considera la agricultura en grupo.
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Finding Your Farm: Necessary, Desirable, Optional

Worksheet to help identify and rank your priorities.
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Encontrando tu granja: Necesario, Deseable, Opcional

Hoja de trabajo para identificar y clasificar sus prioridades.
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Acquiring Your Farm 2.0

Online course with lessons and worksheets to help answer the most critical questions facing all farmers seeking to access farmland. Learn how farmland is acquired and held, how to determine financing, as well as the pros, cons, and implications of owning farmland, plus alternative ownership approaches, and more.
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Conducting a Farmland Search

Webinar to help understand the process, strategies, and tools available as you search for farmland including farm linking sites, soil analysis, affordability calculations, and methods for evaluating land and infrastructure.
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Additional Strategies To Find Farmland

Tip sheet for preparing for your land search. Your chances of success are greater if you use a multi-pronged approach.
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Successfully Acquiring Your Farmland

Article focuses on what to consider to successfully acquire your land, written for the Beginning Farmer Network of Massachusetts.
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Farmland Access in Urban Settings

Guidebook with suggestions, examples, and innovative models to help farmers negotiate land to farm in and around cities.
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Access to Land

Article about farmland tenure and access, published in the Natural Farmer newspaper of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (Winter 2003).
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FarmAnswers.org

Programs, resources and comprehensive library to help you get started farming, as well as tools to help more seasoned producers succeed. University of Minnesota.
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Finding Your Farm

Explore ways new farmers can find available farm properties and options that may be available to acquire farm real estate in New Hampshire. UNH Extension.
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Affording Farmland

Webinar highlights the mechanics behind accessing and affording farmland, from the most basic lease or purchase, to some of the more innovative methods farmers are using to secure their land tenure.
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Land access strategies and land access stories

Inspiring farmer and farmland profiles from across the US and abroad. Agrarian Trust.
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Finding Farmland: A Farmer’s Guide to Working with Land Trusts

A farmer’s perspective on negotiating good agreements. National Young Farmers Coalition.
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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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Learning to Love a Farmland Lease

Article highlights the benefits of leasing and tools to support your lease.
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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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Leasing Factsheets

Learn the components of a sound lease agreement. Factsheets include key terms and clauses, plus tips to develop a written plan, determine rent, and more.
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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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Lease Mediation – Farmer

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

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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 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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Farmland Purchasing Basics

Answers to the most common legal questions around purchasing and financing farmland. Farm Commons.
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Beginning Farmer Learning Network

Learning Network, Cornell University
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New Farmers Discovery Tool

USDA can help you get started or grow your operation through a variety of programs and services, from farm loans to crop insurance, and conservation programs to disaster assistance.

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More Land Access Resources

Links to many practical, and academic items on a wide range of topics related to land access. Greenhorns
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Finding Land to Farm: Six ways to Secure Farmland

A cartoon-illustrated guide great for the basics and as a teaching tool. The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service – ATTRA.
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Affording Our Land

Financial literacy guidebook on various land access methods for new farmers. Greenhorns. 
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AgPlan

Generate a draft business plan with customized templates and sample business plans for ideas. University of Minnesota.
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Farm Evaluation Checklist

Checklist of considerations for location, land, infrastructure, climate and housing.
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UVM Extension New Farmer Project

Chock full of relevant resources. University of Vermont.
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New Entry Sustainable Farming Project

Resources, workshops, apprentice programs, and trainings in Massachusetts.
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Legal Food Hub

A free service that connects eligible farmers and food businesses to volunteer attorneys in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
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Equity Trust

National non-profit organization helping communities to gain ownership interests in land and other local resources, as well as alternative ownership structures for farms.
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Cash Lease Template

Customizable lease template with blanks to fill-in. By California Farm Link
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Land Access and Tenure Toolshed

Chock full of relevant resources. University of Vermont.
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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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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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Agricultural Land Tenure Curriculum

A comprehensive, structured curriculum for use in both classroom and non-academic settings. Modules include case studies, links and exercises.
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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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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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Finding Farmland Calculator

Mortgage calculator for determining financing options and creditworthiness when buying farmland. National Young Farmers Coalition.
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Guide to Farming in New York State

Basic information with resources specific to New York State. Cornell Small Farms Program, Northeast Beginning Farmers Project.
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