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Belchertown, MA 01007
413-323-9878 (tel/fax)
info@growingnewfarmers.org

 

Welcome!

If you are a new farmer or a service provider who works with new farmers, this site is for you.

Farmers:

Use this site to connect with programs, services, and resources for new farmers throughout the 12 Northeast states. Get help finding answers to many common farming questions, and ask us your own. Join in discussions with other farmers and with service providers, and connect with organizations and businesses that care about supporting new farmers.

Service Providers:

This site helps you help and support new farmers. Promote your new farmer programs, services, and resources here. Learn about what's out there for new farmers and make more effective referrals. Find out about innovative new farmer services in other regions. Network with other service providers to help new farmers start and succeed in farming.

Growing New Farmers (GNF) is a support network for Northeast new farmers. As members of the GNF Service Provider Consortium, almost 200 organizations and agencies are committed to improving services for our region's diverse new farmers. Together, we have created a thriving community of new farmers and service providers, working together to assure a vibrant future for Northeast farming.

 

 

 

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GNF is grateful to these Supporters for showing their commitment to new farmers by supporting this website.
Click on their logos to learn more about how these organizations support new farmers.

GNF also thanks the following organizations and companies for their support of this website 2004-2006:

First Pioneer Farm Credit; Farm Bureaus of MA, VT, CT, NH, RI; ME Department of Agriculture;Yankee Farm Credit;
Fairfield Farm Kitchens; Accokeek Foundation; Heifer International; American Farmland Trust

The Growing New Farmers website is owned by the New England Small Farm Institute,
based upon work supported by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
under Agreement No. 00-52101-9706.