Puget Sound Agrarian Commons Board member, artist, and Agrarian Trust staff member Rhys-Thorvald Hansen will be discussing the land opportunity available now in Washington state. Bring your questions and comments and join the conversation! We plan to discuss: - Our goal to have 50% BIPOC leaseholders to interrupt the racial power dynamics that can arise […]
Many of Agrarian Trust's collaborators, partners, and friends will be presenting at the 2021 National Farm Viability Conference. Featuring an array of virtual programming, the conference will bring together professionals in the fields of farm and food business planning, financial planning, agricultural financing, crisis management, farmland conservation, agricultural market development, and food hub management. Attendees […]
Farm Manager Susanna Wheeler discusses New Roots Community Farm and the West Virginia Agrarian Commons, the fundraiser that is close to being fully funded which will put New Roots into the Agrarian Commons, the matching donor for the month of October, the Commons Blossom coffee opportunity, and more!
Director Ian McSweeney and staff member Rhys-Thorvald Hansen are presenting at the Festival of What Works on November 3 at 4pm. About the event: The Festival of What Works is a unique, days-long, online celebration of community-led approaches to living well in place here in Salmon Nation—from the northern California coast to the slopes […]
Agrarian Trust's Commons Alliance Facilitator, Johanna Rosen, will be presenting "Radical Collaborations in Land Access" with Vermont Law School's Center for Agriculture and Food Systems on November 5th from 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST at the Women Food & Agriculture Network conference. Register for the virtual event here.
Young Farmers 7th annual National Leadership Convergence will be held virtually as the second half of a two-year event with the theme of “Achieving Equity Through Agriculture.“ In 2021 we will gather in a hybrid virtual and in-person format to move from learning to action to make equitable change in our own food and farming communities. […]
Staff member Thea Maria Carlson will be giving the keynote address during the second day of the Tilth Conference titled, "Farming for Our Collective Future". Staff member Rhys-Thorvald Hansen will also be speaking on the second day of the conference, giving a presentation titled, "Agriculture Commoning - Rethinking Farmland Access in WA State". About […]
Join MALT for Our Common Ground, a series of conversations to surface creative, collective solutions to some of our most pressing global challenges. MALT CEO Thane Kreiner, Ph.D., and guest panelists will explore a range of issues related to the future of agriculture and food such as diversity and social justice in food systems, regenerative agriculture and […]
Facebook Live with Dr. Shakara Tyler on Wednesday, January 12th, at 5pm EST/4pm CST/ 2pm PST. She’s currently the board president of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network and a co-founder of the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund. She works with several Black agrarian organizations around the country, and earned her PhD from MSU […]
Agrarian Trust's Kendra Johnson will be presenting "21st-Century Land Reform: Community Models for Farmland Tenure" at the 2022 EcoFarm Conference on Saturday, January 22 from 8:30 am - 10:00 am. The conference will be held January 19-22, 2022 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California. Full conference schedule here. Register for the conference […]
A panel of organizations and individuals taking creative approaches to access land will speak about their work at the virtual Tennessee Local Food Summit. Hear from The Agrarian Trust, The Nashville Food Project, and others as they detail their successes and difficulties in their unconventional approaches to finding land for food production. We hope this […]
