For private owners of farmland
Make Your Land Available for Farming flyer- Where Do I Start? Making My Land Available for Farming guide
- A Landowner’s Guide to Leasing Land for Farming handbook
- Farmland Leasing for Private Landowners short guide
- Build-A-Lease Tool, learn about and craft a farm lease; includes definitions, FAQs, sample language and fill-in spaces for the most common sections of a farm lease
- Liability and Insurance in a Farm Lease guide for landowners and tenants
- Steps to leasing your private or public farmland diagram
For institutional owners of farmland
- Leasing Land to Farmers: A Handbook for New England Land Trusts, Municipalities and Institutions handbook
Assessing land and farm infrastructure
- Vermont Natural Resource Atlas Mapping Tutorial (VT)
- GranitView (NH) maps soils, flooding hazards and more
- RIDEM Environmental Resource Map (RI) in the RIDEM Map Room
- Using the NRCS Web Pages to Get Soils Information, Maryland FarmLINK Guide
- Web Soil Survey, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
- UC Davis Tool for navigating USDA-NCSS websoil survey data, UC Davis, NRCS.
- 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.
Farm Link Programs
- New England Farm Link Program Guide explains our region’s farm link programs that help connect farm seekers and farmland owners interested in putting or keeping land in active farming
- New England Farm Link Collaborative builds awareness, readiness and connections among farm seekers, farmers and landowners of all types in all New England states
- Post Your Property! NewEnglandFarmlandFinder.org free posting site for properties for sale or lease to help farm seekers and farm property holders find each other
- How to Create Effective Online Property Postings for Farm Link Websites. This guide walks you through the typical components of a farm property posting and describes the information relevant for farmers.
Research and policy
- Farmland Advisors: Non-Farming Landowners archived webinar
- Farmland Investors: An Exploration for New England and Beyond
Related links
- How to Determine the Right Farm Rental Rate (2014), UVM Extension New Farmer Project
- Cooperative Holding of Land, Chapter 5 in Cooperative Farming by The Greenhorns*
- Successful Farming on a Land Cooperative, a farmer’s story and case study
- Land resource page, New England Small Farm Institute
- Holding Ground: A Guide to Northeast Farmland Tenure and Stewardship, New England Small Farm Institute (purchase)
- Farmland Transfer & Protection in New England, New England Small Farm Institute (purchase)
- Web Soil Survey , USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Vermont Natural Resource Atlas tool
- Farm Rental Agreement Checklist, Ohio State University Extension*
- Sustainable Farm Lease website
* Thanks to these organization for permission to upload their copyrighted material.
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