Alternative Land Access and Business Structures: Webinar Series

Are you interested in alternative land tenure and alternative business structures? Join NOFA-VT and guest presenters from around the country and Canada for a monthly discussion exploring alternative land access models and business structures. Each month we’ll hear from an agricultural project that is actively engaged in land access or land tenure outside of conventional mechanisms, with a specific focus on first generation, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ farmers and land stewards. Presentations will provide an overview of the land access story and business model, sharing details and mechanics of each project, with time devoted to Q&A. With the cost of land rising to a level that makes farming inaccessible to those without agricultural backgrounds or generational wealth, we’ll be asking questions about decommodifying land, working cooperatively, fundraising, building community, creating legal structures, and more. Over the course of the series, we aim to build a network of land holders, land seekers, community members and service providers looking to reimagine existing structures, and rebuild resilient agricultural communities that work for everyone. 

Webinars will be held on the second Tuesday of every month, 5:30-7:00pm EST

May 5/13 : La Ferme Tourne Sol - Quebec, Canada

La Ferme Torne Sol is a worker-owned farm in Quebec producing vegetables and seeds. that has been in operation since 2004. They currently have 9 worker owner members and fifteen employees and operate using holacracy as their governance model.

June 6/10 : La Finca Cooperative - Porter, ME

La Finca Cooperative is a worker-owned cooperative grounded in BIPOC leadership and majority stakeholder ship with a unique land access model in collaboration with Land In Common.

**Skip July/Aug**

Sept 9/9 :   TBA! (Details will be posted and shared ASAP)

Oct 10/14 : Osamequin Farm - Seekonk, MA

Osamequin Farm is a non-profit educational space and working farm committed to preserving the land. This privately owned land offers long term affordable leases on farmland with the option to utilize shared infrastructure and marketing structures.

Nov 11/11 : Humble Hands Harvest - Decorah, IA

Humble Hands Harvest is a worker-owned cooperative vegetable farm in Decorah, Iowa, with a unique, community based land access story. With their commons model, they put land in the hands of those willing to steward it cooperatively, as a commons for future generations.

Dec 12/9 : Rock Steady Farm - Millerton, NY

Rock Steady Farm is a multi-racial, queer and trans led cooperative vegetable farm and nonprofit rooted in social justice, food access and farmer training.