Agrarian Trust Team
Collective Experience & Accomplishments
Support to Farms, Food Systems, and Communities:
- Raised $25,000,000+ to support agricultural communities
- Completed Conservation and/or Transfer of 120+ farms
- Completed 40+ lease agreement to provide secure long-term tenure
- Conserved 15,000+ acres
- Farm business planning and grant writing assistance for 300+ family farms
- Completed nationally recognized innovative farm preservation projects to address conservation, affordability, community building, secure tenure, incubation in-place, and food cooperatives
Reach:
- Recent and continued work in 41 states, 140+ municipalities, and several regional efforts
Experience:
- Educated in Agriculture, Ecology, Environmental Science, Sustainability, Law, Social Work, Conservation, Sociology, Sustainable Landscape Planning & Design
- Farming, Farm Management, and Farm Ownership for 46+ years
- Led 100+ local, regional, national, and international workshops, presentations, conferences, and convenings
Work:
- Community activism, engagement, and development
- Founding community and national organizations
- Fundraising, grant writing, and grant funding management
- Develop, maintain, and facilitate food systems networks
- Pass bills and ballot measures on local, county, and state levels
- Serve on a variety of organizations: boards, committees, and commissions on local, regional, national level for government, nonprofit, startup, land trust
- Meeting facilitation in diverse communities
- Farmers market management and mobile market development
- Contribute to and publish: guides, books, toolkits, documentaries, and radio shows
- Organize and launch community-driven food systems infrastructure, such as hubs and processing kitchens
- Managed and supported AmeriCorps and intern programs
- Involved in farm incubators for refugee and next generation farmers, and farmers in Appalachian transition context
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