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  Title:  Organizational Director Circles:  Development, Communications, Organization Start Date:  Fourth Quarter 2017 Type of Contract:  Part Time Employee Organization:  Agrarian Trust Organization Contact:  Reports directly to the Board Teams:  Development, Communications, Organization Hours:  30 Hours per week   About Agrarian

We are looking for someone with strong team-building skills and a sharp focus on organizational capacity building and money management; the Financial Director will be building the farmland investment fund, managing finances, and supporting the Organizational Director. The Agrarian Trust

Links to some interesting articles that we’ve been reading lately.   A great story from the New York Times that we encourage everyone to check out: The Hidden Radicalism of Southern Food An article about happenings in Scotland A New

 We are looking for a leader with strong team-building skills and a sharp focus on organizational capacity building; the Organizational Director will immediately join the search committee for the Financial Director position, who will be building the farmland investment fund.

We Shall Not Be Moved is their song, and it means they “ain’t going nowhere!” That’s the spirit of the Tillery, North Carolina resettlement, product of a New Deal program offering landless sharecroppers a chance to buy their own farms.

“A new report estimates 64 percent of Oregon’s farmland, nearly 10.5 million acres, could change hands in the next 20 years. Farmers 55 and older, the ubiquitous Baby Boomers, control that much of Oregon ag land, according to the report. As

The Vermont Housing and Conservation Board has granted over $800,000 in state and federal funding to help conserve nearly 500 acres of farmland and to address issues of water quality and protection. Additionally, two of the five proposed conservation easements will include transfers

The film Land Terra tells the story of communities in northern and remote Scotland and the vast and intense Brazil, that have found alternative ways of ethical production, of subsistence and individual growth. Click here to watch the trailer.