Community Development

Barbara Norman Receives NCR-SARE Diversity Program Grant

Type: North Central SARE From the Field Profile

NCR-SARE developed a Diversity Goals Narrative to clarify NCR-SARE’s goals for its new diversity initiative and initiated a special call for the Diversity Research and Education Grant Program.The special call for the Diversity Research and Education Grant Program’s purpose was to fund people and/or projects that could help NCR-SARE reach and work with underserved audiences to improve agricultural sustainability in the region.

Begin Farming Ohio

Type: North Central SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product

For the first time Ohio’s new and beginning farmers have an entire Web site dedicated to their unique information needs, designed to make it easier for them to find the services and resources they seek. The Web site URL is www.beginfarmingohio.org.

Begin Farming Ohio Website Launched to Assist Beginning Farmers

Type: North Central SARE From the Field Profile

This website represents the collaborative efforts of: the Cuyahoga Valley Countryside Conservancy; Ohio Department of Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture; Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA); the Organic Food and Farming Education & Research Program of the Ohio State University Ohio Agriculture Research and Development Center; and the Ohio State University Extension. These entities, working together as Begin Farming Ohio, aim to build Ohio’s capacity to provide, expand, enhance, and sustain services to beginning farmers.

Building Sustainable Farms, Ranches and Communities

Federal Programs for Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry, Entrepreneurship, Conservation and Community Development

Type: Book

This guide lists funding opportunities offered by federal programs, and is indispensable for anyone seeking government help to foster their innovative enterprise in forestry and agriculture. Available only online.

Download File (869.10 kB)

Civic Agriculture: Prosperous Communities Through Quality Agriculture

New American Farm Conference Breakout Session

Type: Presentation

How do we grow communities with our natural, local assets? These experts talk about rural development that begins with community-based organizations, local entrepreneurship and farm and ranch businesses that build communities.

Creating an Agricultural Commission in Your Hometown

New American Farm Conference Poster

Type: Poster

Creating an Agricultural Commission in Your Hometown, presented by Lynda Brushett (New Hampshire).

Download File (1.87 MB)

Economic Analysis and Policy Development to Support Multiple Benefits

New American Farm Conference Poster

Type: Poster

Economic Analysis and Policy Development to Support Multiple Benefits, presented by George Boody (Minnesota).

Download File (942.27 kB)

Farm-to-School Lessons from the Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch Project

New American Farm Conference Poster

Type: Poster

Farm-to-School Lessons from the Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch Project, presented by Doug Wubben (Wisconsin).

Download File (494.27 kB)

Farmer-Led Learning Groups to Mentor Beginning Farmers

New American Farm Conference Poster

Type: Poster

Farmer-Led Learning Groups to Mentor Beginning Farmers, presented by Billie Best (Massachusetts).

Download File (1,010.29 kB)

Farmers Market Managers Training Manual

Type: Northeast SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product

The Farmers Market Federation of New York has offers this comprehensive training resource, the Farmers Market Managers Training Manual. This manual is the product of a three-year training effort funded through a Northeast SARE Professional Development grant.

Download File (7.04 MB)

Farmland ConneCTions

Type: Northeast SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product

A guide for towns, institutions, and land trusts using or leasing farmland.

Download File (1.10 MB)

Farms to Schools (and Other Institutions)

New American Farm Conference Breakout Session

Type: Presentation

A farm-to-school expert describes how to get off on the right foot when marketing to schools, while a staff member of the New North Florida Cooperative talks about how the cooperative marketed to a larger institution, the Department of Defense’s Food Service Program.

Food, Culture and Communities

New American Farm Conference Breakout Session

Type: Presentation

Many American cultures are losing their traditions of healthy foods. Hear about an initiative that connects good food with urban communities and high-risk youth, and another that bring nutritious, traditional foods, like “kneel-down bread”, back to Navajo communities.

Healthy Issues

A Midwest Homecoming Conference Session

Type: Presentation

Individual presentations on marketing pasture-raised beef, health insurance rebates for CSA participation and indigenous seed saving.

Helping Appalachian Farmers Tap New Markets

Type: Southern SARE From the Field Profile

Hundreds of farmers in Appalachia making the switch to sustainable methods have received vital help from SARE-supported Appalachian Sustainable Development.

Kriemhild Dairy Farms

Type: Northeast SARE From the Field Profile

The localvore movement leads to multifarm cooperation.

Land and Power

Sustainable Agriculture and African Americans

Type: Book

Renowned experts' articles, essays and poems offering historical and contemporary Black perspectives on sustainable agriculture.

Download File (11.99 MB)

Print Version:

$10.00

Land Grant Student Makes Key Discoveries in Exurban Farming

Type: North Central SARE From the Field Profile

Graduate student's research on agriculture at the rural-urban interface has profound implications for government farm policy.

Large-Scale Help for Small-Scale Farmers

Type: Northeast SARE From the Field Profile

The New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, supported by SARE grants, has helped dozens of small farmers in Massachusetts establish their roots.

Local Harvest

A Multifarm CSA Handbook

Type: Northeast SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product

Local Harvest: A Multifarm CSA Handbook offers straightforward guidance on cooperative marketing, an innovative practice that is helping CSAs stay strong and viable over the long term.

Download File (1.87 MB)

Meeting the Diverse Needs of Limited-Resource Producers

An Educator's Guide

Type: Bulletin

A 16-page bulletin intended to be a resource for agricultural educators, heads of community development and agricultural organizations, government agency staff and others who want to better connect with and improve the lives of farmers and ranchers who remain hard to reach.

Download File (509.39 kB)

 | 

View the Online HTML

Print Version:

Free

Multi-Species Pasture Stacking Systems

Type: North Central SARE From the Field Profile

Down a winding country road in Garnett, Kansas stands the Bauman farm, where agriculture is a family affair. Upon purchasing the farm in 2001, the family’s first farm venture was to raise pastured chickens and livestock. Today, the Baumans sell about 7,000 broiler chickens each year and an average 350 dozen eggs a week.

With the help of a grant from the NCRSARE Farmer Rancher grant program, the Baumans experimented with pasturing different species of animals in the same area. With the “pasture stacking” project, the family increased their broiler chickens’ average weight by 50 percent.

Partnerships for Sustainable Communities

New American Farm Conference Poster

Type: Poster

Partnerships for Sustainable Communities, presented by Bob Zabawa (Alabama).

Download File (161.44 kB)

People of the Land

Sustaining American Indian Agriculture in Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington

Type: Western SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product

This Extension educator curriculum focuses on successful strategies for increasing the adoption of sustainable practices on reservation lands. 

Download File (25.02 MB)

Place-Based Foods of Appalachia

From Rarity to Community Restoration and Market Recovery

Type: Southern SARE Grantee-Produced Info Product

A publication to foster recognition of the Appalachia region and encourage preservation of heirloom seed varieties.

Download File (2.12 MB)

Rural Revitalization through Farm-Based Enterprise

Type: North Central SARE From the Field Profile

For decades, John Allen has helped farmers develop business skills and strategies, improving their profitability and helping to revitalize rural communities.

SARE and Local Food Systems

Type: Southern SARE Bulletin

Promoting Local Food

Download File (84.32 kB)

SARE and the Social Sciences

Type: Southern SARE Bulletin

Southern SARE and the Social Sciences

Download File (66.32 kB)

SARE Publications Kit

Type: National SARE Promotional Product

Order an entire set of SARE Outreach books and bulletins for one low price.

Print Version:

$116.25

Strengthening and Sustaining Agriculture on American Indian Lands

New American Farm Conference Poster

Type: Poster

Strengthening and Sustaining Agriculture on American Indian Lands, presented by Staci Emm (Nevada).

Download File (10.62 MB)

Successful Launching of Wyoming Reservation Farmers Market

Type: Western SARE From the Field Profile

Because of high obesity and diabetes rates and a lack of locally-grown foods on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Washakie, Wyoming, Justine Russell launched her PDP-funded project with the goal of increasing awareness of the potential for a farmers market on the Reservation. In less than two years, she and her partners accomplished so much more than increasing awareness.

Sustainable Community Innovation Grants

Type: Southern SARE Bulletin

Sustainable Community Innovation Grants

Download File (73.23 kB)

The New American Farmer, 2nd Edition

Profiles of Agricultural Innovation

Type: Book

Hailing from small vegetable farms, cattle ranches and grain farms covering thousands of acres, the producers in The New American Farmer, 2nd edition have embraced new sustainable approaches to agriculture.

Download File (6.44 MB)

 | 

View the Online HTML

Print Version:

$16.95

The New Farmers' Market

Farm-Fresh Ideas for Producers, Managers and Communities

Type: Book

In one complete volume, this must-have resource for direct market producers covers the latest tips and trends from leading-edge sellers, managers and market planners all over the country.

Print Version:

$26.95

Turning Urban Lots into Lots of Food

Type: North Central SARE From the Field Profile

Will Allen is using innovative soil-building techniques and educational programs to lead the way in urban agriculture.

Youth Education Curriculum Guides

Type: Online Course/Curriculum

A collection of online curricula for K-12 youth education in sustainable agriculture.

Youth Renewing the Countryside

Type: Book

This full-color book profiles 50 inspiring young people—one from every state—who are revitalizing rural America with new enterprises.

Download File (10.87 MB)

Print Version:

$24.95