[Ctyfc] Fwd: Land transfer training opportunity for agriculture educators

[Susan Beckwith]

For those of you working with beginning farmers and/or succession planning, here’s info on becoming a trainer for American Farmland Trust.  

The program is designed for farmer educators and trainers currently involved in or familiar with farm transition education and facilitation. 

Onward.. together,
-Sue


Sue Beckwith
Texas Center for Local Food
512-496-1244
SueB at TexasLocalFood.org

"For there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."
— "The Hill We Climb" Amanda Gorman


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> From: "Niewolny, Kim" <niewolny at vt.edu>
> Subject: Land transfer training opportunity for agriculture educators
> Date: April 19, 2021 at 8:51:00 PM CDT
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> On behalf of a national project team focused on succession planning and land transfer curriculum, I am sharing the following opportunity to serve as a certified trainer in helping a diverse new generation of farmers secure land and succeed in agriculture.  The program is designed for farmer educators and trainers currently involved in or familiar with farm transition education and facilitation.  Please consider and share with your networks!
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> Thank you,
> Kim 
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> TRANSITIONING LAND TO A NEW GENERATION: PREPARING TRAINERS TO HELP FACILITATE TRANSFER
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> APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR TRAINERS
> Are you currently working with beginning farmers and ranchers (BFRs)?  Are you addressing issues of succession planning and land transfer? Would you like to increase your skills and knowledge and share them with others? If so, consider applying to become a certified trainer. 
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> American Farmland Trust (AFT) is seeking 25 experienced agricultural educators from across the country to serve as trainers and help a diverse new generation secure land and succeed in agriculture.  This new initiative, Transitioning Land to a New Generation <https://farmland.org/project/transitioning-land-to-a-new-generation/> , will develop a new land transfer training curriculum and trainer network.  The overarching goals of the project are:
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> To ensure a new generation of farmers and ranchers can secure land to support viable agricultural operations.
> To support an expanding network of skilled professionals to provide training and technical assistance to facilitate farm transitions.
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> This project builds on AFT's Farmland for the Next Generation <https://farmland.org/project/farmland-for-the-next-generation-land-access-training/> project, which developed the LAT Curriculum and Network. We now are focusing this work on developing tools for communication skills needed during land transfer. To field test, we are looking for agricultural educators who work directly with landowners and land seekers to first be trained in and then deliver the new curriculum to both BFRs and service providers. We will provide stipends to support training and travel time as they learn, pilot and evaluate our new curriculum with the populations of farmers, ranchers and landowners they work with across the country. We hope you will both consider this opportunity for yourself and help us reach agricultural educators in your networks to let them know about this opportunity.
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> Working as partners with AFT and a highly skilled and diverse team of collaborators, trainers will be trained to deliver the curriculum, pilot it with the audiences they serve, and help us improve it so that it meets the needs of diverse farmer and landowner audiences. This work will occur over two years beginning this summer and continuing through the summer of 2023. Attached is the trainer application announcement which has additional information about how to apply.  
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> Please feel free to contact Megan Faller mfaller at farmland.org <mailto:mfaller at farmland.org> for any application questions. 
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> Transitioning Land to a New Generation is supported by a 3-year Educational Enhancement grant from the USDA BEGINNING FARMER AND RANCHER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, AWARD# 2020-49400-33257
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> ______________
> Kim L. Niewolny, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor | Department of Agricultural, Leadership, & Community Education (0343)
> 282 Litton-Reaves Hall | Virginia Tech*
> Blacksburg, VA 24061
> tel: 540.231.5784
> gender pronouns <https://ccc.vt.edu/resources/Gender_Pronouns.html>: she/her
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> Director, Center for Food Systems and Community Transformation <https://foodsystems.centers.vt.edu/>
> Director, Virginia Beginning Farmer & Rancher Coalition <http://www.vabeginningfarmer.org/>
> Director, AgrAbility Virginia <http://www.agrabilityvirginia.org/>
> President, Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS) <https://afhvs.wildapricot.org/>
> Editorial Board, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development <https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj>
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> *The Tutelo/Monacan people are the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and live. <https://ccc.vt.edu/index/aiicc.html>
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