Are you a service provider looking to engage with our projects? The following projects include resources to help you support farmers and provide opportunities for professional development.
Baskets to Pallets
Learn about our Baskets to Pallets Educator Cohort, a group of 14 service providers who are developing new resources and offering one-on-one assistance to farmers.
Specialty Mushrooms
Demand for specialty mushrooms is rapidly rising, as consumers look to purchase foods that are healthy, nutritious, and medicinal. This project offers training both in person and online, cultivation and marketing factsheets, videos, and guidebooks.
Small Farm Summits
The Small Farm Summits are opportunities for farmers, educators and small farm advocates to gather across NY and prioritize emerging issues and opportunities that will strengthen the small farm sector.
Past Projects
In the last couple years, we've hosted various projects that produced useful resources. Although the projects below aren't currently being offered, we wanted to make sure they remained accessible
Profit Teams
Advanced Beginning Farmer Profit Team Project
This project provides 40 advanced beginning farmers with intensive support from a “New Farmer Profit Team” of advisers.
Trainers Toolbox
Resources for Service Providers
Since 2009 the Beginning Farmer Learning Network has met once a year to share ideas and improve the support we collectively provide to beginning farmers. The Trainers Toolbox is the repository of presentations, documents, and webinars shared by members of this network.
Small Farm Grants Program
In 2012, the Cornell Small Farms Program awarded $3,000 to $5,000 grants to organizations in NY that presented compelling projects serving and supporting small farms. Four proposals were selected. An additional project to support a small dairy field day series summer, 2012 was also funded.
Telling Better Stories
In 2013, the Cornell Small Farms Program hosted a training for farmers and ag educators seeking to become better story tellers, providing professional journalism instruction on how to develop engaging narratives. Access resources from the workshop and visit the Story Share page for articles and photos submitted by attendees.
