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American Farmland Trust (AFT)

https://farmland.org/

Resources are provided for:

Beginner farmers (1-10 years farming),
HU farmers (as defined by NRCS),
Grants,
Land Access,
Conservation practices,
Education,
Technical Assistance

Programs:

Farmland protection: American Farmland Trust (AFT) works with the NRCS and other partners throughout the state to help New Jersey's farmers protect their farmland.

Smart Solar: AFT is partnering with Rutgers on a one of its kind program to train New Jersey’s farmers how to farm around solar panels.

Grants: AFT's Brighter Future Fund (BFF) grant program provides funding to farmers to improve farm viability; access, transfer or permanently protect farmland; or adopt regenerative agricultural practices. The BFF program prioritizes funding for beginning farmers, Veterans, and farmers who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQIA+.

More Info:

American Farmland Trust is working to save the land that sustains us by protecting farmland, promoting sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on the land.

American Farmland Trust is the only national organization that takes a holistic approach to agriculture, focusing on the land itself, the agricultural practices used on that land, and the farmers and ranchers who do the work. AFT launched the conservation agriculture movement and continues to raise public awareness through our No Farms, No Food message. Since our founding in 1980, AFT has helped permanently protect over 7.8 million acres of agricultural lands, advanced environmentally-sound farming practices on millions of additional acres and supported thousands of farm families.

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