All Case Studies
Green Heffa Farms
- Farmer name: Clarenda “Farmer Cee” Stanley
- Acreage: 14.84 acres
- Location: Liberty, NC
- Year Founded: 2018
- Affordability Tools: Purchase
- Farm Operation: organic and regeneratively grown herbs and medicinal plants, including hemp flower
Black Cotton
- Farmers name: Julius Tillery
- Acreage: 125
- Location: Rich Square, NC
- Method of Access: Ownership
- Year Founded: Six generations, early 1900s
- Affordability Tools: Purchase
- Farm Operation: Cotton, mushrooms, hunting
Nature’s Candy Farms
- Farmers name: tenisio seanima
- Method of Access: Ownership, lease, handshake
- Acreage: 1/4 acre
- Location: East Point, GA
- Year Founded: 2011
- Affordability Tools: Purchase, Lease
- Farm Operation: Vegetable, Specialty Crop
Tierra Fértil
- Los agricultores: Chang y Ger Xiong, Christina Dedora, Ben Torpey, John Kenny, Michele Kozloski, Garmai Mawolo, Choua y Kia Xiong
- Método de acceso: Arrendamiento a largo plazo, tierra pública
- Superficie en acres: 50 acres
- Ubicación: Henderson, North Carolina
- Año de fundación: 2004
- Herramientas de asequibilidad: Incubadora agricultora, servidumbre de conservación, agricultura colaborativa, tierra pública
- Operación agrícola: Verduras orgánicas, huevos, flores y hierbas
Brooklyn Grange
- Farmers: Ben Flanner, Anastasia Cole Pakias, Gwen Schantz, and colleagues
- Method of Access: Lease
- Acreage: 5.6 acres on 3 rooftops
- Location: Brooklyn and Queens, New York
- Year Founded: 2010
- Affordability Tools: Lease
- Farm Operation: Diversified vegetables, agritourism (dinners, weddings, workshops, farm tours), landscaping services
Caretaker Farm
- Farmers: Bridget Spann and Don Zasada (junior farmers); Sam and Elizabeth Smith (senior farmers)
- Method of Access: Bridget and Don own the farmhouse and structures and rent the farmland via a ground lease
- Acreage: 35 acres
- Location: Berkshires, Massachusetts
- Year Founded: 2006 (Don and Bridget's operation); 1991 (Sam and Elizabeth's CSA); 1969 (Sam and Elizabeth's operation)
- Affordability Tools: Ground lease, conservation easement, community fundraising, land trust
- Farm Operation: Diversified animal and vegetable operation with 200 varieties of 40 different crops every season, plus chickens and pigs
Diggers’ Mirth
- Farmers: Hilary Martin, Dylan Zeitlyn, Elango Dev, Sophia Zowat
- Method of Access: Lease
- Acreage: 11 acres
- Location: Burlington, Vermont
- Year Founded: 1992
- Affordability Tools: Farm incubator, collaborative farming, LLC
- Farm Operation: Vegetables and salad greens
Elmer Farm
- Farmers: Spencer and Jennifer Blackwell
- Method of Access: Ownership
- Acreage: 89 acres
- Location: Middlebury, VT
- Year Founded: 2006
- Affordability Tools: Conservation easement, OPAV, land trust
- Farm Operation: Vegetables and grains
Full and By Farm
- Farmers: James Graves and Sara Kurak
- Method of Access: Ownership
- Acreage: 100 acres
- Location: Essex, NY
- Year Founded: 2010
- Affordability Tools: Conservation easement, land trust
- Farm Operation: Vegetables, meat, eggs
Greenfield Berry Farm
- Farmers: Daniel and Michele Greenfield
- Method of Access: Lease, public lands
- Acreage: 20 acres
- Location: Cuyahoga, OH
- Year Founded: 2006
- Affordability Tools: Leasing public lands
- Farm Operation: Berries
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