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Grow Your Farm Business Course: Goal Setting
Grow Your Farm Business Course: Goal Setting
January 29th: Goal Setting Instructor: Mary Kate Wheeler As the operator of a startup farm, you face an infinite number of decisions about how to allocate your precious resources. Are you making good choices about how to spend your time and money? Are you utilizing your land and equipment well? Is your business headed in…
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Community Read Kick Off: Freedom Farmers
Community Read Kick Off: Freedom Farmers
Our entire community is invited to explore agricultural resistance and the Black Freedom Movement! Through author Monica White's research on Fanny Lou Hamer's Freedom Farms Cooperative. This event will kick off a Community Read of Monica White's book in preparation for her visit April 17, 2020. Join us on the 4th --- we'll distribute books,…
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Grow Your Farm Business Course: Financial I: Accounting Basics & Financial Feasibility
Grow Your Farm Business Course: Financial I: Accounting Basics & Financial Feasibility
Instructors: Leslie Ackerman In Leslie’s first of two Finance sessions, she will guide the class to understand finance and accounting concepts and will explain tax basics intelligibly. She will also help students consider the financial feasibility of their individual farms or farm plans. The Grow Your Farm Business Course is offered on a sliding scale…
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Farming for Justice: Bridging and Disrupting: Transforming the Emergency Food System
Farming for Justice: Bridging and Disrupting: Transforming the Emergency Food System
Farming for Justice February 2020 Bridging and Disrupting: Transforming the emergency food system through community-based practices of growing and sharing food in Appalachia Wednesday, February 12th 12-1:30pm EST Via Zoom, recorded Register here. This presentation and conversation will dive into deeper understanding of the emergency food system, community-based food system, and their intersections. In…
Grow Your Farm Business Course: Financial II: Financial Management, Budgets, and Funding Sources
Grow Your Farm Business Course: Financial II: Financial Management, Budgets, and Funding Sources
Instructor: Leslie Ackerman In Leslie’s second Finance session, she will go over financial statements and how to use them and walk the class through a cash flow projection. She will also discuss various sources of financing a farm business. The Grow Your Farm Business Course is offered on a sliding scale fee structure. The sliding…
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Grow Your Farm Business Course: Marketing, Branding, Writing a Marketing Plan
Grow Your Farm Business Course: Marketing, Branding, Writing a Marketing Plan
Instructor: Matt LeRoux, CCE Tompkins County Learn how a focused strategy and specific efforts can reduce your marketing labor needs and make every step count. Matt will discuss the components of a basic marketing plan and how a plan leads to efficient and innovative marketing. The Grow Your Farm Business Course is offered on a sliding…
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Voices from the Land: A Movie Series Promoting Agricultural Justice
Voices from the Land: A Movie Series Promoting Agricultural Justice
Voices from the Land: A Movie Series Promoting Agricultural Justice February 20th, March 26 and April 16th, 7pm @ Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY Tickets for all shows at $10. All proceeds go to Groundswell Center to support training the next generation of farmers in the Finger Lakes Buy tickets at the box office or Buy Tickets…
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Building a Participatory Food System Plan
Building a Participatory Food System Plan
Building a Participatory Food System Plan Wednesday, February 26 5:30pm Tompkins County Public Library Mark your calendars for this kick-off event, co-hosted by the Tompkins County Food Policy Council, the Childhood Nutrition Collaborative, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County and Greenstar Community Projects. Groundswell Center is a member of the Tompkins County Food Policy…
Grow Your Farm Business Course: Why Equity Needs To Be The Foundation of Your Farm Business
Grow Your Farm Business Course: Why Equity Needs To Be The Foundation of Your Farm Business
Instructors: Alexas Esposito, Natalie Hughes Agri-culture is based on the relationship between humans and the land, focusing on the way in which land is cultivated to provide sustenance for a community. Tracing a history from colonialism to modern industrialization, conventional agriculture has evolved into a largely exploitative practice across race, gender, and class. If we broaden…
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