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INVESTIGATOR: DeVos, M.

PERFORMING INSTITUTION:
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
109 SOMERSET STREET
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND 02907

FEED RHODE ISLAND: GROWING SUSTAINABLE FARMS

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: Feed Rhode Island: Growing Sustainable Farms seeks to increase the number and success of limited resource and socially disadvantaged beginning farmers in the state. Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT) will accomplish this goal by leading an experienced team to undertake four objectives: provide training and technical assistance, manage multiple incubator sites, offer on-farm apprentice training, and facilitate a land transfer working group. Partners include RI Department of Environmental Management, Brown University, RI Land Trust Council, Nature Conservancy RI Chapter, Northeast Organic Farming Association, Northern Rhode Island Conservation District,Young Farmers Network, and University of Rhode Island.Through this program, the organization will leverage the experience and relationships of program partners into meaningful outcomes that would otherwise take years to achieve. Technical assistance and training for urban and rural farmers and will launch them onto their own farms. It will move urban farmers onto larger plots of land. It will lead to new behaviors that increase production and strengthen co-operative marketing while improving sales and boosting Rhode Island's economy. Support for an expanded apprentice program will increase the number of people who are prepared to begin their own farm businesses. Effective management of incubator space, combined with execution of a broadly supported land transfer strategy will create many new independent farms in a state where land values are astronomically high. Feed Rhode Island: Growing Sustainable Farms will help SCLT create significant change quickly in Rhode Island.

OBJECTIVES: Feed Rhode Island: Growing Sustainable Farms seeks to increase the number and success of limited resource and socially disadvantaged beginning farmers in the state of Rhode Island. Through this program, Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT) will leverage the experience and relationships of program partners into meaningful outcomes that would otherwise take years to achieve. SCLT will accomplish this goal by leading an experienced team to undertake four objectives:Objective #1: Provide training and technical assistance to beginning farmers.Technical assistance and training for urban and rural farmers and will launch them onto their own farms. It will move urban farmers onto larger plots of land. It will lead to new behaviors that increase production and strengthen co-operative marketing while improving sales and boosting Rhode Island's economy.Objective #2: Manage multiple incubator sites in urban and rural RI.Effective management of incubator space will provide beginning farmers with training and access to land so as to create and expand their businesses at a pace they could not achieve otherwise.Objective #3: Offer on-farm apprentice training.Support for an expanded apprentice program will increase the number of people who are prepared to begin their own farm businesses.Objective #4: Facilitate a Land Transfer Working Group.Execution of a broadly supported land transfer strategy, in combination with effective management of SCLT incubator space, will create many new independent farms in a state where land values are astronomically high.

APPROACH: SCLT will employ the following methods, according to each objective:OBJECTIVE 1: In collaboration with program partners, SCLT will provide expanded training and technical assistance, open to all beginning farmers in Rhode Island. The following trainings will be offered:Introduction to Organic Growing Methods. 6 workshops/yearBeginning Farmer Classroom Training. 1 course/year. It will be taught be SCLT staff in conjunction with experienced farmers.Farmers Market Hands-on Training.SCLT will offer farmers market hands-on training in June through October each year.Advanced Marketing Workshop: SCLT's City Farm Steward will teach this 6-hour training over two dates in February each year at the SCLT offices.USDA Resources Workshop:Each year SCLT will host a USDA Resources Workshop and invite USDA representatives who can discuss NRCS, FSA, SARE and crop insurance programs that serve beginning farmers.Young Farmer Network Short Course - In the spring of each year, YFN will provide a 5-week short course in farm bookkeeping and advanced financial planning, or other topics in future years depending on requests from participants.Advanced Production Workshops - University of RI will provide three, science-based, 2-hour workshop on composting, integrated pest management, and low-impact land practices.Livestock Workshops - Northeast Organic Farming Association - RI will offer workshops on improving soil health with livestock production, rotational grazing and organic pest management, profitable organic egg operations, nutrition management for organic chickens and swine, and managing a diversified organic livestock farm. Each year, there will be 2 classroom workshops, 2 on-ranch workshops and 2 workshops at the NOFA/RI Winter Conference.The following technical assistance will be provided:One-on-One Technical Assistance: SCLT staff will provide direct technical assistance in production and marketing, and we will arrange for technical assistance from successful small farmers in RI. We will aid farmers in accessing technical assistance from other regional providers or farmers through covering travel costs, honorariums, mentoring stipends, workshop fees, etc.Land Access Technical Assistance - For beginning farmers moving onto SCLT held farmland or other RI farmland, SCLT will provide for TA including advising on crop plans and business plans, advising on developing good leases, and connecting farm seekers with appropriate financing options.Co-operative Marketing Technical Assistance - SCLT will work with new producers each year to provide information about how marketing collaboratives work, the roles and responsibilities of members, and offer technical assistance to start new collaboratives as needed.Outreach Strategy: Program partners will use different outreach protocols for different audiences and types of activities. This will include direct mail or email to 700 gardeners in SCLT Community Gardens; phone calls and emails to beginning farmers in our programs; posters, flyers and presentations at community organizations, agricultural associations, and churches; local print channels; program partner websites, blogs, facebook accounts and e-newsletters. For more advanced workshops, participants will be recruited from among those who have applied to access SCLT land, who have completed the beginning farmer in-classroom training or who are participating in existing or new market collaboratives or the apprentice program. Outreach materials will be developed in English, Spanish and other languages as needed. Workshops will be presented in English and Spanish as needed and interpreters will also be available.OBJECTIVE #2: SCLT will manage multiple training locations for beginning farmers and ranchers. SCLT manages a number of farm incubator sites right now and will expand this activity during the next 3 years.SCLT will continue to manage its urban and peri-urban incubator farmes, including 50-acre Urban Edge Farm. As additional space at UEF or at urban farm locations becomes available, SCLT will promote its availability to Urban Farmers and other beginning farmers using the outreach strategies described above in Objective #1.OBJECTIVE #3: Each year SCLT will continue to host one apprentice at City Farm and will expand the program to offer 3 additional positions. These apprentices will be hosted at nearby vegetable and livestock farms and trained by experienced farmers. In Jan/Feb 2017 we will facilitate 3 meetings where farmers will finalize the elements of the curriculum and the process for recruitment, oversight, compensation and evaluation. In Feb/Mar we will advertise the positions. Participants will also be recruited throughthe programs listed above.OBJECTIVE 4: - Through a Land Transfer Working Group, SCLT will work with farmers, partners and others to develop and execute innovative land transfer strategies and otherwise assist beginning farmers to purchase or lease farmland. The land transfer working group will meet 4-6 times each year beginning in January of 2017. In the first year we will identify strategies, develop a 3-year workplan, and begin to identify available parcels as well as develop a process for individual farmer recruitment and selection. In year 2, the members will take steps to match farmers with available farmland, provide technical assistance to farmers regarding land transfer, and continue to identify additional land. By year 3 we will have successfully identified parcels for 3-6 farmers. The meetings of the working group will occur at the offices of SCLT and farmers will be recruited through program partners, the RI Division of Agriculture, the RI Conservation Districts, NRCS and FSA.PLAN FOR OUTCOME BASED REPORTINGSCLT will work with Brown University Environmental Studies Professor Dawn King, PhD to measure impact and evaluate this program. The evaluation will begin with collection of baseline data in January 2017 and continue with additional data collection and review in September 2017, 2018 and 2019. The evaluation will include:1) Interaction Surveys: Interaction surveys will be developed and administered to all farmers who participate in classroom trainings, workshops and one-on-one technical assistance. The survey will be administered at the end of each activity - in the case of technical assistance the technical assistance provider will be responsible for distributing and collecting the survey. The survey may be a written survey or may be administered verbally relying on show of hands responses.2) Annual Suvey: At the end of each year, we will survey program participants to measure accomplishments. In addition, SCLT and program partners will host an annual Harvest Party where we bring all of the farmers together to celebrate our season. At this event we will set aside time for students and SCLT to administer the survey in person for those farmers with low English and or technology skills.3) Apprentice Program: Dawn will work with SCLT staff and program partners to design and execute an evaluation of the Apprentice Program - aimed to measure both the effectiveness of the curriculum as well as the effectiveness of the farmer/trainers. The evaluation will include a survey of the apprentices. It will also feature facilitation of a feedback session for farmer/trainers where they have an opportunity to review the survey results from the apprentices and also provide input on any needed improvements to the apprentice program.4) Annual Management Team Debrief and Strategy Session: Each year members of the program staff and partners will meet in a ½ day participatory evaluation "retreat" to review the results of the Brown U. evaluation, overall program operations and share their perspective on the prior year. The team will identify what aspects of the program operations worked well and what areas could be improved. Each member of the team will be asked to make and receive recommendations for changes.

PROGRESS: 2016/08 TO 2019/07
Target Audience: • Immigrant producers • Limited resource producers • Organic producers • Small farms • Urban producers Changes/Problems:SCLT has existed for many years as primarily an urban agriculture organization, and has historically focused on developing land within that context. However, as we have expanded access to our peri urban incubator, Urban Edge Farm, we are finding that more and more as farmers establish themselves in urban growing spaces and markets, they want to expand. This realization has caused the organization to accelerate it efforts to expand UEF as well as identify other nearby peri urban and rural parcels to develop to meet this high demand. Through surveys, focus groups, and client interactions SCLT has learned that what most farmers find the most effective in terms of helping their business grow is one on one technical assistance during the growing season. Furthermore, farmers would rather have classes that are classroom oriented take place in more concentrated off-season sessions. Going forward, SCLT and its partners plans to redouble the resources for technical assistance and provide workshop days during the offseason. ? What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Nothing Reported How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?E-news and newsletters Annual report publication RIFood Policy Council (https://rifoodcouncil.org/rhode-island-stories) Farmanswers.org What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

IMPACT: 2016/08 TO 2019/07
What was accomplished under these goals? Objective #1: Provide training and technical assistance to beginning farmers. SCLT, with its partners, carried out an integrated training and technical assistance program that served 89 unique participants. We offered 11 workshops and education events in production, marketing, business planning, and land access: ·2/21/19 Applying to Farmers Markets (11 participants) 2/23/19 Start Farming with SCLT (12 participants) 3/3/19 NOFA-RI Livestock Workshop (8 participants) 3/3/19 Building Healthy Soil (22) 3/23/19 Seed Starting and Greenhouse Management (16 participants) 5/5/19 Potato Production(13 participants) 6/3/19 Food Safe Harvest and Post-Harvest (15 participants) 6/3/19Harvest and Post Harvest Record Keeping (8 participants) 6/4/19 Small Urban Farm Irrigation (5 participants) 6/20/19 Wholesale Customer Engagement (9 participants) ·8/7/19 Beginning Farm Safety Planning (16 participants) As in previous years of the project, SCLT made a concerted effort in offering training and technical assistance to a sub-group of beginning and aspiring farmers who are immigrants or refugees to the United States and who farm primarily on urban plots (some of whom are transitioning or planning to transition to larger non-urban plots). Furthermore, as we have very recently developed urban land in Pawtucket and Central falls, where urban agriculture is less common, we have focused outreach in these locations and used the newly developed land as training facilities for in-field workshops. SCLT staff and project partners continued to provide one-on-one technical assistance to these farmers. In doing so, we had at least 25 separate one on one interactions with farmers, with median interaction time being 30 minutes. The topic for which technical assistance and advising was provided include: ·On- farm production assistance for 8 farmers, including pairing 3 farmers with experienced farmer mentors Quality control, food safety, delivery and invoicing for 8 returning farmers and 6 new farmers participating in SCLT's Food Hub Advising on USDA programs for 4 farmers Provided extra technical assistance on market research and planning for 8 farmers who began selling at a farmers markets and through direct wholesale Advising 3 farmers in creating business banking accounts for their farms Funded 3 farmers and aspiring farmers to attend the Northeast Organic Farming Association of RhodeIsland's annual winter conference Assisting farmers with obtaining farm resources ·Served as matchmaker between 7 farmers who leased land from farmland owner Objective #2: Manage multiple incubator sites in urban and rural RI. Prepared 6.5acres of unused fieldspyce at Urban Edge Farm (UEF), SCLT's peri urban incubator farm, for production by new farmers and farmers expanding from small urban farms. This allowed 5 new farmers at the site, preparing it as a training field for urban farmers to expand their operations. Additionally, other capital investments were made in anticipation of the increased number of farmers, including, irrigation improvements, access road construction, new greenhouse construction, and new crop storage construction. Also during 2019, a new urban farm site, approximately 3/4 acre was developed by clearing, capping and importing new topsoil. tilling, and cover cropping. This site will make urban farming space available for as many as 3 new urban farmer, who will be given access to the land based on their participation in SCLT farming training programs and submission of a business plan. SCLT continues to manage 10 urban incubator farm sites in Providence and Pawtucket. At one of these sites, in Pawtucket, further improvements to the land were made allowing 2 new farmers to begin production there for the first time. which will allow the 2 farmers there to extend their growing season and expand their revenue with the production of plant starts. SCLT used funds from the grant to purchase tools and materials for the incubator sites and participating farmers, including: hoes and shovels, a have-a-heart trap, row cover, irrigation components, mobile hand washing stations, compost, and seeds. Objective #3: Offer on-farm apprentice training. SCLT began receiving application for the 2019 apprenticeship in the late fall and winter of 2018. Applicants were reviewed and interviewed by the host farms in February and March, with selections made by mid- March. All apprentices and hosts signed the "agreement form" in April. The number of apprentices was 5 in 2019. The precise start and end date of each farm apprentice was determined by the type of farm work and season at the host farm, but generally ran from late March to middle of November. Apprentices worked approximately 40 hours per week for 6 months at their host farms. They also completed additional activities to add to their educational program, including: attend 3 class workshops and 3 farm tours; complete a basic business plan. As with the first year, all apprentices and host farmers completed a mid-program assessment in which they self- evaluated their strengths, weaknesses, and level of exposure to the program's learning outcomes. And again this year, an end of season debrief is planned with all participants and host farmers in order to assess lessons learned to further refine the project. Objective #4: Facilitate a land access working group. In 2019, Land Access Working Group (LAWG) 5 times in person at SCLT. The agenda usually begins with each member sharing information about land they manage that will be available, or if they are in touch with a landowner who may have land available. Any necessary coordination across the members takes place. Based on lessons learned from the previous year's effort, SCLT took measures to ensure the staff with the most expertise regarding immigrant, refugee, and limited English proficient farmers and aspiring farmers, was included in meetings with the land access working group to refer individuals who were seeking land and to advise the working group on better connecting with those farmers from those demographics. The Working Group has continued to develop and grow the following 3 projects as part of its 3- year work plan: create a Farm Seeker Form, Match farmer seekers with land, and Outreach to land owners with farm easements. During this past year, 7 farmers were matched with available farmland and guided through the lease signing process. The attendees were coached in forming farm proposals to be submitted to the landowner. Those selecting were subsequently coached through the leasing process.

PUBLICATIONS (not previously reported): 2016/08 TO 2019/07
No publications reported this period.

PROGRESS: 2016/08/01 TO 2017/07/31
Target Audience: Audience Emphasis Immigrant producers Limited resource producers Organic producers Small farms Urban producers Participants Served Record the total number of unique participants who participated in your program: Total Number of Participants: 118 Enter the actual cumulative number of participants who as a result of your program: Started farming: Target - 42, Actual - 9 Helped prepare to start farming: Target - 60, Actual - 44 Improved farming success: Target - 102, Actual - 33 Changes/Problems:SCLT piloted a small aggregation and distribution project with our immigrant and refugee farmers. Prior to the project, these farmers predominantly only sold at farmers markets, and so the concept of a food hub was unfamiliar. The first delivery or two were rocky, and then the farmers adjusted to this new way of business and it became a key part of their marketing for the season. SCLT used the BFRDP project to develop and implement new trainings on harvesting, food safety and quality control. SCLT serves immigrant and refugee farmers who predominantly grow on urban plots and who have particular educational needs to adapt to American business practices and agricultural conditions, as well as educational barriers including language, numeracy and literacy. In 2016-7, most of the classes we taught to these farmers were designed especially for them. However, we offered a few classes to both the general Rhode Island beginning farmer audience and to this "English Language Learner" (ELL) population. We found that the learning needs and styles are too different across the groups that this was not effective for the ELL population. In 2017-8, we will design the curriculum with an ELL track and a non- ELL track. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Total Meetings: 14 Total Meeting Participants: 166 Total Webinars: 0 Total Webinar Participants: 0 Total Website Visits: 0 Total Online Course Participants: 0 Meetings 1/18/2017: Providence, RI -- Number of Attendees 20 2/11/2017: Providence, RI -- Number of Attendees 6 3/5/2017: Warren, RI -- Number of Attendees 13 3/5/2017: Warren, RI -- Number of Attendees 13 3/11/2017: Providence, RI -- Number of Attendees 10 4/1/2017: Providence, RI -- Number of Attendees 5 4/18/2017: Providence, RI -- Number of Attendees 11 4/9/2017: Exeter, RI -- Number of Attendees 15 3/15/2017: Providence, RI -- Number of Attendees 17 3/26/2017: Cranston, RI -- Number of Attendees 20 4/2/2017: Cranston, RI -- Number of Attendees 17 4/29/2017: Providence, RI -- Number of Attendees 5 6/4/2017: Smithfield, RI -- Number of Attendees 9 6/20/2017: Cranston, RI -- Number of Attendees 5 How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? News for Rhode Island beginning farmers Program participants News to beginning farmers- March/April SCLT beginning farmers Beginning Farmer Classroom Training flyer Growing specialty crops for market, crop and marketing planning Beginning Farmer Classroom Training flyer/spanish growing specialty crops for market, crop and marketing planning Field Tunnel Workshop flyer Teach techniques for building and growing crops in a field tunnel. Primary audience, ELL farmers What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Steps to be aken to help participants Objective #1: Provide training and technical assistance to beginning farmers. Work with program partners (University of Rhode Island, Young Farmer Network, NOFA/RI) to develop the 2016-7 training schedule Plan, promote, and deliver the schedule of workshops Develop an outreach strategy to promote trainings to all aspiring and current beginning farmers in Rhode Island. Work with farmers to develop business plans for their farms Provide technical assistance as requested Objective #2: Manage multiple incubator sites in urban and rural RI Continue work to clear a new field at Urban Edge Farm - SCLT's rural incubator farm Process applications from prospective farmers and select new incubator farmers Provide training and technical assistance to 2 new incubator farmers Manage 20 urban incubator farm sites in Providence and Pawtucket. Regular management activities have included upholding lease, addressing infrastructure issues, and providing support to the farmer participants. Purchase tools and materials for incubator sites; loan or give out materials in an equitable fashion Objective #3: Offer on-farm apprentice training Work with host farmers to develop a shared learning outcomes and associated curriculum for the 4 apprenticeships Promote opportunity, process applications (24 applicants total) Review applications; interview applicants Apprentices worked at their host farms for approximately 40 hours/ week for 6 months Administer a mid- season and post- season assessment Respond to Human Resources issues, as needed Objective #4: Facilitate a land transfer working group Meet approximately every other month Create a "Rhode Island Farm Seeker Form" - this is the state's only centralized site that collects information from farm seekers. Match available farmland with farm seekers from the list Work with landowners who are interested in leasing their land to farmers. Provide materials and technical assistance (e.g. on lease terms). Develop outreach to landowners with farm easements to provide them with information aboutresources in RI to support landowners making succession/transition plans, and land linking resources to connect to farmers seeking land to lease.

IMPACT: 2016/08/01 TO 2017/07/31
What was accomplished under these goals? Result 1. Participants learn about rotational grazing, whole farm planning, and sustainable water sources Producer action: Understand, Topic: Pasture / Rangeland When measured: At the end of the workshop Estimated Number: , Actual Number: 16 How verified: Written survey Result 2. Participants complete the Introduction to Organic Growing Methods and learn basic RI growing techniques and gain exposure to SCLT's training program Producer action: Understand, Topic: Vegetables When measured: At the end of each class (6 times/ year) Estimated Number: 20, Actual Number: 4 How verified: Interaction surveys Result 3. Participants complete Beginning Farmer Classroom Training and learn market strategies, crop planning, and basic business planning Producer action: Understand, Topic: Local, regional, and direct marketing When measured: At the end of each class Estimated Number: 30, Actual Number: 7 How verified: Interaction and/or written survey Result 4. Classroom training participants complete basic business plan Producer action: Develop, Topic: Business and strategic planning When measured: At the end of each class Estimated Number: 30, Actual Number: 7 How verified: Tally completed business plans Result 5. Participants implement marketing and sales skills through Farmers Market Hands-on Training program Producer action: Implement, Topic: Local, regional, and direct marketing When measured: At the end of each market season Estimated Number: 12, Actual Number: 8 How verified: Written surveys Result 6. Participants will learn skills that prepare them to move into a new product line, marketing channel, or customer segment, by attending the Advanced Marketing Workshop Producer action: Understand, Topic: Marketing plans and strategies When measured: At the end of each class Estimated Number: 36, Actual Number: 20 How verified: Written survey Result 7. Participants attend the USDA Resources Workshop and understand the resources available and initial steps they must take to access the USDA programs Producer action: Understand, Topic: Federal and state farm programs When measured: At the end of the workshop Estimated Number: 60, Actual Number: 5 How verified: Written surveys Result 8. Participants plan to make changes to operations or administration in order to qualify for USDA programs Producer action: Decide, Topic: Federal and state farm programs When measured: At the end of the workshop Estimated Number: 30, Actual Number: 2 How verified: Written survey Result 9. Participants begin using USDA programs within 2 years of attending the USDA Resources Workshop Producer action: Implement, Topic: Federal and state farm programs When measured: At the end of the year Estimated Number: 18, Actual Number: 6 How verified: Annual written survey Result 10. Participants complete a short course ("moving onto your own space" or other topics), and plan resulting changes that will improve their farm viability Producer action: Understand, Topic: Vegetables When measured: At the end of each course Estimated Number: 43, Actual Number: 33 How verified: Tally participant number on sign-in sheet Result 11. Participants complete advanced production workshops and learn science- based conservation and agricultural practices Producer action: Understand, Topic: Conservation When measured: At the end of each class Estimated Number: 60, Actual Number: 16 How verified: Tally participants on sign-in sheet Result 12. Following the Advanced Production Workshops, participants plan to implement new or expanded conservation practices Producer action: Decide, Topic: Conservation When measured: At the end of each class Estimated Number: 18, Actual Number: 16 How verified: Written survey Result 13. Participants implement new or expanded conservation practice within a year of attending an Advanced Production workshop Producer action: Implement, Topic: Conservation When measured: At the end of the year Estimated Number: 12, Actual Number: 6 How verified: Annual written survey Result 14. Participants complete Livestock Workshops and learn conservation, pest management, business management, and other skills Producer action: Understand, Topic: Livestock When measured: At each class Estimated Number: 60, Actual Number: 49 How verified: Tally participant number on sign- in sheet Result 15. Participants plan to implement new or expanded sustainable livestock practices Producer action: Decide, Topic: Livestock When measured: At the end of each class Estimated Number: 30, Actual Number: 35 How verified: Written survey Result 16. Participants implement new or expanded sustainable livestock practice within a year of attending a Livestock Workshop Producer action: Implement, Topic: Livestock When measured: At the end of the year Estimated Number: 12, Actual Number: 10 How verified: Annual written survey Result 17. Participants complete business plans Producer action: Develop, Topic: Business and strategic planning When measured: At the end of the year Estimated Number: 20, Actual Number: 8 How verified: Tally business plans Result 18. Participants will learn about how marketing collaborative works and the roles and responsibilities of members, and will receive assistance to start new collaboratives Producer action: Understand, Topic: Marketing plans and strategies When measured: At the end of each year Estimated Number: 30, Actual Number: 6 How verified: Tally participants from SCLT technical assistance log records Result 19. Participants who had received technical assistance on marketing cooperatives will join or start a cooperative Producer action: Implement, Topic: Marketing plans and strategies When measured: At the end of the grant period Estimated Number: 8, Actual Number: 3 How verified: Annual written survey Result 20. Participants who receive crop or livestock- related technical assistance will plan to make changes in their production, marketing, or business development Producer action: Decide, Topic: Vegetables When measured: At the end of each TA consultation Estimated Number: 30, Actual Number: 20 How verified: Verbal survey Result 21. Participants will begin or expand their businesses onto urban or rural SCLT incubator space Producer action: Implement, Topic: Access to land When measured: End of the grant period Estimated Number: 20, Actual Number: 4 How verified: Tally from SCLT log records Result 22. Participants complete a full-season on-farm apprenticeship Producer action: Understand, Topic: Mentoring, apprenticeships, and internships When measured: At the end of the grant period Estimated Number: 12, Actual Number: 4 How verified: Tally from SCLT log records Result 23. Apprentice program participants change or expect to change their production, marketing or business practices Producer action: Decide, Topic: Mentoring, apprenticeships, and internships When measured: At the end of the year Estimated Number: 12, Actual Number: 3 How verified: Written survey Result 24. Apprentice program participants will begin their own farming enterprise 2-3 years after completion of the program Producer action: Implement, Topic: Mentoring, apprenticeships, and internships When measured: At the end of the grant period Estimated Number: 4, Actual Number: 0 How verified: Written survey Result 25. Participants receive technical assistance from the Land Access Working Group in order to expand onto farms where they own the land or hold the lease directly Producer action: Implement, Topic: Access to land When measured: At the end of the grant period Estimated Number: 6, Actual Number: 3 How verified: Written survey

PUBLICATIONS: 2016/08/01 TO 2017/07/31
No publications reported this period.