Advocacy Organizations
- Forever Farmland Initiative Massachusetts
- Sustainable Agriculture Land Tenure Initiative
- The Carrot Project
- Equity Trust
- New Entry Sustainable Farming Project
- UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture/New Farmer Project
- Northeast Beginning Farmer Project
- Land for Good
- New England Farmers Union
- American Farmland Trust
- Center for Rural Affairs
- RAFI-USA
- University of Wisconsin’s Land Tenure Center
- Environmental Working Group
- A Growing Culture
- The Land Connection
- Linking Land and Farmers (LLAF) Canada
- Women’s Food and Agriculture Network (WFAN)
- On the Commons
- Renewing the Countryside
- Young Farmers Program (DE)
- Young Farmers Advisory Board (MD)
- Critical Farms Program (MD)
Land Trusts
The USDA and American Farmland Trust offers a very comprehensive land trust locator tool at findalandtrust.org
- A New Lease on Farmland: Assuring a Future for Farming in the Northeast by The New Economics Institute
- Land Trusts and Agricultural Land
- 2011 Community Land Trust Technical Manual
- Preserving Farms for Farmers Manual by Equity Trust provides case studies on farm protection strategies as well as model programs and documents
- American Farmland Trust
- Farm Land Working Group
- Commentary on Model Agricultural Conservation Easement with Option to Purchase
- The FarmLASTS Project: Farm Land Access, Succession, Tenure and Stewardship
- The Trust for Public Land
List of Regional Land Trusts and Land Access Advocates
Western US
- Alaska Farmland Trust
- California Council of Land Trusts
- Brentwood Agricultural Land Trust (BALT)
- Big Sur Land Trust
- Sierra Foothills Conservancy, Ranchers Program
- Land Trust of Santa Cruz
- Sonoma Land Trust
- Placer Co Land Trust
- Marin Agricultural Land Trust
- PCC Farmland Trust
- Rio Grande Agricultural Land Trust, NM
- Oregon Sustainable Agriculture Land Trust
- Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust
- Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust
- California Rangeland Trust
- Marin Agricultural Land Trust, CA
- Texas Agricultural Land Trust
- Taos Land Trust, NM
Midwest US
- Twin Cities Agricultural Land Trust MN
- The Land Connection
- Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation
- Johnson County Heritage Trust IA
- Kansas Land Trust
- Minnesota Land Trust
- Nebraska Land Trust
Eastern US
- Agricultural Stewardship Association, NY
- Vermont Land Trust
- Community Land Trust of the Southern Berkshires
- Peconic Land Trust
- Farm Catskills
- Maine Farmland Trust
- Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation
- NY Agricultural Land Trust
- Lancaster Farmland Trust
- Connecticut Farmland Trust
- Rhode Island Land Trust Council
- Georgia Agricultural Land Trust
- The Trustees of Reservations, MA
- Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy Farmland Access, NC
- CISA Massachusetts
- Grand Traverse Land Conservancy FarmAbility Program Michigan
- Southside Community Land Trust RI
Canada
Overseas
- Terre de Liens, France
- Agricultural Land Trust, Australia
Worldwide
Incubator Programs
- New England Small Farm Institute
- The Intervale Center Burlington VT
- Tillian Center, MI
- ALBA, CA
- The SEED Farm, PA
- Viva Farms, WA
- Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming, NY
- NE Beginning Farmers’ Green County Agricultural Incubator Study
- Farm Start Canada
- Cultivate Kansas City
- Headwaters Farm Incubator Oregon
Regional Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Organizations
- Listing of Organic Farming Associations by State from the Organic Consumers Association.
- Farm Start Ontario based, helps make farming accessible
- NE Beginning Farmers Guide to Farming in NY – Financing a Farm Operation
- The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition’s Grassroots Guide to the Farm Bill
- The FarmLASTS Project: Farm Land Access, Succession, Tenure and Stewardship
- New Entry Sustainable Farming Project – Resource Guides
- The New Entry Sustainable Farming Project offers a variety of guides geared especially towards low-literacy populations, but useful to all of us. They also offer beginning farmer training programs and workshops
- Farm Education Resource Network (FERN) Southwestern US
