Farm Financial Guides
- Affording Ourland: Financial Literacy for Young Farmers
- Financing Your Farm CA Farmlink
- The Farmer’s Guide to Agricultural Credit
- CA Farmlink Financial Literacy Guide
- Fearless Farm Finances: Farm Financial Management Demystified, MOSES
- Agricultural Land Values, August 2013, USDA
- Marketing, Business and Risk Management Guide
- Developing and Operating an Individual Development Account CA Farmlink
Social Impact Investors
- New Spirit Farmland Partnerships is a social finance organization that connects sustainable farmers to land and business opportunities
- Organic Farmland Access Program helps investors to buy land, which they subsequently lease to farmers that enroll in the program
- The Land Connection facilitates socially motivated investors to buy land, transition it to organic and resell it to organic farmers.
- NCB Capital Impact provides flexible financing to projects that increase healthy food access in low income California communities
- The Springcreek Foundation
- Dirt Capital
- Field Guide to Investing in a Regenerative Economy Capital Institute
- Novo Foundation Local Economies Project
- RSF Social Financing
- Responsible Endowments Coalition
- Principium Investors
- Honeybee Capital
Community-Based Financing
- Financing Alternatives for Small Farms CA Farmlink
- UVM Guide to Financing the Community Supported Farm
- The Carrot Project
- The Farmer and Lender Project: Strategies to Sustain and Enhance Rural Development in North Carolina RAFI-USA.
- Land, Liberty, Sunshine, Stamina: Mini Compendium on Land Tenure Resources by the Greenhorns
- Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) connects local business networks and leaders to spread solutions and increase investment in local economies
- Rural Development Resources USDA
- Rural Cooperatives Magazine USDA
- Vermont Farm Fund
- Setting Up Microloans in Three States The Carrot Project
- Small Farms in a Changing Credit Market The Carrot Project
- The Working World
- 24 Tools for Local Investing Michael H. Schuman
- Creating a Community Investment Fund
Helpful Resources for Borrowers
- Overview of Annuitized Payments Annuity.org
- Structured Settlements Annuity.org
- Finance and Credit Reading Room NALC
Agricultural Loans
- The Carrot Project
- Beginning Farmer Funding Sources Center for Rural Affairs
- Funding Resources Beginning Farmers
- Urban Ag Financing Resources Southside Community Land Trust
- Rural Enterprise Assistance Program (REAP) Center for Rural Affairs
- Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Farm Loan Information Chart
- The Plain Language Guide to Applying for a FSA loan from the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project
- USDA Loan Chart Fact Sheet
- Farm Credit Network is a national network of member-owned farmer credit cooperatives
- Farm Credit East program for beginning farmers
- NRCS EQUIP: Technical and Financial Support for Conservation on Organic Farms Oregon Tilth Organic Conservation Program
- Vermont Agricultural Credit Corporation (VACC)
- Badgerland Financial, Wisconsin
- Slow Money Alliance
- Micro Enterprise Works
- RSF Social Finance offers loans to both non-profit and for profit enterprises, focusing on sustainable food and agriculture and ecological stewardship
- Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) – Tobacco Reinvestment Fund
- Whole Foods Market’s Local Producer Loan Program (LPLP) provides up to $10 million in low-interest loans to small, local producers
- Coastal Enterprises, Inc. (CEI) provides financing and business support services to small business enterprises in Northern New England and upstate NY
- NOFA VT’s Revolving Loan Fund
- Equity Trust Fund
- Catholic Worker Farmer Revolving Loan Fund
- New Farm Development Program Loan Fund Grow NYC
- Bank of North Dakota: First Time Farmer Finance Program
Agricultural Grants
- Guide to State and Federal Grants for Small Farmers Cornell Small Farms Program
- Guide to SARE grants (farmer research grants from the USDA) Cornell Small Farms Program
- ATTRA provides information on EQUIP grants program
- NSAC – Guide to Conservation Grants through the Farm Bill
- Good Husbandry Grants Program Animal Welfare Approved
Agricultural Easements, Conservation and Land Contracts
- Clean Ohio Fund Farmland Preservation
- Agricultural Preservation Restriction Program (APR), Massachusetts
- Purchase of Agricultural Conservation Easements, Wisconsin
- Vermont Land Trust
- A National View of Agricultural Easement Programs: Profile and Maps, AFT 2003
- Improving Conservation Outreach to Female Non-Operator Farmland Owners WFAN
- Owner-Financed Sales and Land Contracts UVM
- Land Contract Guarantee Program Fact Sheet USDA
- Land Contracts: Owner Financing with a Twist Ben Waterman
- Ohio’s Agricultural Easement Program Farmland Information Center
Financial and Business Planning
- Farm Beginnings Hawthorne Valley offers farm planning courses and workshops.
- Cornell Small Farms Program
- Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship
Managing Debt
- Project on Student Debt
- National Foundation for Credit Counseling
- Feedthepig.org is campaign for public education on smart money management