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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
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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
The Center for Agriculture and Food Systems is an initiative of Vermont Law School, and this toolkit provides general legal information for educational purposes only. It is not meant to substitute, and should not be relied upon, for legal advice. Each farmer’s circumstances are unique, state laws vary, and the information contained herein is specific to the time of publication. Accordingly, for legal advice, please consult an attorney licensed in your state.