Growing Equity Partnership

Growing Equity is a multi-year project to build capacity to provide business technical assistance (BTA) to small farmers and ranchers and to increase their participation in USDA programs and services. Project partners include American Farmland Trust, Black Family Land Trust, The Carrot Project, and 19 cohort organizations including BTA consultants, Cooperative Extension, and nonprofits that serve the target audiences.

BTA includes customized technical assistance, one-on-one services, and training to improve farm and ranch viability. Topics range from improving financial literacy, accessing capital, and business management skills, to new enterprise development, marketing and sales, land access and succession planning, and even access to high-speed internet.

To date, partners have reached over 3,100 producers through individualized coaching and BTA, webinars and other training, and specialized assistance to help them create a document or plan to increase their overall viability.  

American Farmland Trust (AFT) is pleased to be partnering with the Black Family Land Trust (BFLT), The Carrot Project (TCP), and the Agricultural Viability Alliance (Alliance). Funded through USDA-NIFA (The National Institute of Food and Agriculture), this project is intended to increase the quality and quantity of business technical assistance to small producers, including through a greater understanding of and potential participation in USDA programs and services.

Partners