About
Our Donors & Supporters
Thanks for your support!
Our work would not be possible without the generous support of foundations, donor-advised funds, businesses, and individuals. This includes donors such as:
Kalliopeia Foundation, Donner Foundation, Trisons Foundation, Namaste Foundation, Globe Trotter Foundation, Annenberg Foundation, New World Foundation, World Centric, Flora Foundation, New Priorities Foundation, The Claneil Foundation, The Chipotle Aluminaries Project, Patagonia Foundation, No Regrets Initiative, and the You Have Our Trust Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
Thank you to those who create legacies for future generations through land gifts:
Ms. Caroline Gardner
gave the first land gift to the Puget Sound Washington Agrarian Commons which catalyzed the national Agrarian Commons movement.
Monadnock Community Land Trust
donated Normanton Farms, the first founding farm to be transferred into the New Hampshire Agrarian Commons.
Callie and Dan Walker
are donating land for the creation of the Central Virginia Agrarian Commons.
Collaborating Organizations
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIES LAW CENTER (SELC)
SELC cultivates a new legal landscape that supports community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment. SELC provides essential legal tools—education, research, advice, and advocacy—so communities everywhere can develop their own sustainable sources of food, housing, energy, jobs, and other vital aspects of a thriving community.
NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE COALITION (NSAC)
Agrarian Trust is a participating member of the NSAC.
GREENHORNS
Greenhorns works to create a welcoming and hospitable culture for new entrants in sustainable agriculture. They have produced films, radio, guidebooks, parties and trainings, almanacs, anthologies, song collections, exhibits, mixers, art stunts, and transmedia collaboratives that defy classification. Greenhorns is a community-powered studio dedicated to grassroots media, cultural programming and land repair for the benefit of the human and non-human worlds. Their programs and projects address the practical and social concerns of those in their first years farming, emphasizing restorative land-practices, skill-building, networking and dialogue.
FAMILY AGRICULTURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SERVICES (F.A.R.M.S.)
F.A.R.M.S. provides technical and legal services to small-scale farmers, while reducing hunger in the farmers’ community. Since 2013, F.A.R.M.S. has purchased and donated nearly 1 million pounds of fresh produce and provided estate planning, foreclosure, and civil rights legal assistance to farmers throughout the country.
FUTUREFARMERS
Futurefarmers is an international collective of artists, architects, and farmers who create formats for exchange and production. They are drawn together around a common interest in shaping the social and political organization of space. They use performance, the built environment, sculpture, and journalism as modes for audiences to gain insight into and take part in this negotiation.
US FOOD SOVEREIGNTY ALLIANCE (USFSA)
The USFSA works to end poverty, rebuild local food economies, and assert democratic control over the food system. They believe all people have the right to healthy, culturally appropriate food, produced in an ecologically sound manner. As a US-based alliance of food justice, anti-hunger, labor, environmental, faith-based, and food producer groups, they uphold the right to food as a basic human right and work to connect local and national struggles to the international movement for food sovereignty.
LIFT ECONOMY
LIFT Economy is an impact consulting firm, worker-owned cooperative, and Certified B Corporation. LIFT’s mission is to create, model, and share an inclusive and locally self-reliant economy that works for the benefit of all life.
FOODSHED CAPITAL
Foodshed Capital is a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that connects citizens who want to invest in their local food system with farmers who need financing.
CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL
CAFS trains law and policy students to develop real-world solutions for a more sustainable and just food system.
