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The Federation of Southern Cooperatives
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The Federation has been successfully working since 1967 to provide Black farmers, landowners, and cooperatives in the Southern region with land retention assistance, cooperative development assistance, and advocacy. The Federation is a non-profit cooperative association of black farmers, landowners, and cooperatives. The majority of our farmers, landowners, cooperatives, and credit unions are in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana.
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The National Black Food and Justice Alliance
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The National Black Food and Justice Alliance represents hundreds of Black urban and rural farmers, organizers, and land stewards based nationwide working together towards an intergenerational, urban/rural movement to map, assess, train and deepen the organizing, institution building and advocacy work protecting Black land and work towards food sovereignty.
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The Northeast Farmers of Color Network
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The Northeast Farmers of Color Network is an informal alliance of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian farmers making our lives on land in the Northeast region. There are 21 founding member farms and a total of over 515 farmers, land stewards, and earth workers in our network.
Currently, the Network exists as a members-only listserv* and we also gather regionally and annually for skillshares and knowledge exchanges.
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The Southwest Georgia Project
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Southwest Georgia Project is on a mission to educate, engage, and empower communities using a variety of programs and strategies to advance real social change in Southwest Georgia and beyond. They aim to develop a more accessible and community-oriented food system; increase opportunities to family and historically underserved farms; and build sustainable and just movements to shift social norms.
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Tracy Potter-Fins and Bethany Stanbery grow fresh, high quality, certified organic, Montana Homegrown produce and flowers for their community
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Tracy Potter-Fins and Bethany Stanbery grow fresh, high quality, certified organic, Montana Homegrown produce and flowers for their community. While Tracy focusses her efforts on the vegetable side at County Rail Farm, Bethany focusses her efforts on Field Five Flowers, but they both focus most of the love on their 7-month-old daughter, Imogen Stanbery-Fins. (USDA/FPAC photo by Preston Keres).
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Translated Resources for Non-English Speaking Producers - Library on farmers.gov
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This new page is searchable and can be filtered by language to better serve staff and producers alike. The library includes publications on conservation, disaster recovery, loans, and other topics, translated into 10 languages, with more to come. This library will grow quickly over the next few months as we begin stocking it with all the translated materials from each FPAC agency.
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Tribal Stewards Inclusion Crews: Northwest Youth Corps
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Our Tribal Stewards Inclusion Crews aim to inspire the next generation of Tribal land stewards. Tribal Stewards leaders and members complete work projects with the guidance and mentorship of trained conservation professionals. Emphasis is placed on holistic development, on the basis that healthy land supports healthy people.
The Tribal Stewards Inclusion Crews follow our Youth Camping program structure and combine education and job skill training with outdoor adventure for 16 to 19 year olds.
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Training programs
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) Area Director Nivory Gordon, Jr. and His father Nivory Gordon Sr
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) Area Director Nivory Gordon, Jr. and His father Nivory Gordon Sr. (USDA Photo by Preston Keres)
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Redlands District Conservationist Tomas Aguilar-Campos and HdV Co-Founder and Executive Director Maria Alonso.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Redlands District Conservationist Tomas Aguilar-Campos and HdV Co-Founder and Executive Director Maria Alonso. (USDA Photo by Lance Cheung)
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University of Maryland Extension Urban Farmer Field School holds an educational event at Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm (PPHUF) in Baltimore, Md., July 20, 2021
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University of Maryland Extension Urban Farmer Field School holds an educational event at Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm (PPHUF) in Baltimore, Md., July 20, 2021. (USDA/FPAC Photo by Preston Keres)
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