RESOURCES

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Black Farmer’s Index, offers a region-by-region listing of Black farms. The data is ever-growing, so if you have a farmer to add, they welcome the addition. 

The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program offers grants and education to farmers, educators, service providers, researchers and others to address key issues affecting the sustainability of agriculture throughout our region.

Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. We raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid.  

The Freedmen Heirs Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promise of successful Black farms.  

 Black Urban Growers (BUGs) is committed to building networks and community support for growers in both urban and rural settings.  

The USDA's Farm Service Agency offers loans to help farmers and ranchers get the financing they need to start, expand or maintain a family farm.

At UJAMAA SEEDS we cultivate and distribute culturally meaningful seeds.

 Since 1998, FUTURE HARVEST is proud of its role in moving the Chesapeake region’s agriculture forward. 

A collective of BIPOC farmers centered on racial justice and the development of food and farming systems that honor our communities.

FARMS TO GROW aims to increase the capacity of underserved farmers to keep their farm operations as a viable career for future generations. 

Tailored for direct-market farmers producing food for their local communities, Certified Naturally Grown provides a much-needed complement to the National Organic program.   

 The Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) is an online portal for information about agricultural genetic resources that are managed by the Agricultural Research Service of USDA, along with U.S. partnering organizations.