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April 18, 2024
Q + A with Antonio Garza, Feeding Crane Farm
Financial Support
Lending
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March 15, 2024
Maria de la Luz Vineyard: A Tale of New World Trailblazers
Education
Business Skills
February 7, 2024
Impact Profile: Leonard Diggs and Pie Ranch creating equity for farmers
Business Skills
Education
Financial Management
Business Skills
September 27, 2023
Hijas de la Fresa: A California Legacy Rising
Business Skills
Succession
Education
Succession
July 5, 2023
Good Humus Produce: Transitioning a Life’s Work
Education
Succession
Business Skills
June 21, 2023
Queen of Vegetables: Yadira Mendiola Transforms Her Passion for Farming into a Business
Business Skills
Education
Lending
May 3, 2023
Perennial Grazing: Affordable financing supports growth of a first-generation business
Conservation
Education
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Education
March 24, 2023
Impact Profile: Katie Herzog
Education
Business Skills
Lending
October 31, 2022
Troy Stokes: Cultivating Resilience for a Fishing Business
Lending
Education
Lending
June 1, 2022
Cecilia Rojas Gonzalez: Investing in the Farm for Future Prosperity
Lending
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May 13, 2022
Anna’s Organic Farms: Growing a Family Business
Lending
Education
May 3, 2022
Vicky Garcia Moya, Eco-Family Farms
Land Access
Education
Lending
March 30, 2022
Investing in conservation at Hummingbird Ridge Farm
Conservation
Lending
September 28, 2021
Efren Avalos, Avalos Farms, San Benito County
Lending
Education
March 19, 2021
Isabel Squire, Tara Firma Farms, Sonoma County
Education
Land Access
Land Access
March 17, 2021
Zamora Flora: from the incubator plot to secure land tenure
Land Access
Lending
October 14, 2020
Phil and Carmen Carter, Winters Fruit Tree
Lending
Lending
September 23, 2020
Aldo Gonzalez, Gonzalez Organic Farms, Monterey County
Lending
Lending
August 14, 2020
James and Dawn Birch, Flora Bella Farms, LLC
Lending
Land Access
May 12, 2020
GRUB CSA Farm’s Journey to Land Ownership
Land Access
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Lending
March 10, 2020
Sweet Spot Farm: community-scale regenerative agriculture
Lending
Land Access
December 11, 2019
Pisga Organics: A promised farm
Land Access
Education
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September 5, 2019
Bucio Organic Farm: Loans helping put people on the land
Land Access
Lending
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July 22, 2019
FogDog Farm Establishes Secure Land Tenure
Lending
Land Access
Education
Lending
April 26, 2019
Kern Family Farm: Rooted in Community
Lending
Land Access
Education
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November 20, 2018
Zea Sonnabend, Fruitilicious Farm, Santa Cruz County
Lending
Lending
November 20, 2018
Luis Silva, Silva Organic Farms, Santa Cruz County
Lending
Land Access
Lending
May 27, 2018
Edmundo Diaz De Leon, Golden Rule Organics, San Benito County
Lending
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May 27, 2018
Ge Moua, Moua’s Farm, Sacramento County
Land Access
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May 27, 2018
Alexis and Gillies Robertson, Skyelark Ranch
Lending
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May 27, 2018
Jamie Collins, Serendipity Farms, Monterey County
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April 24, 2024
California FarmLink Staff and Advisors Delivering Talks at the National Farm Viability Conference
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March 28, 2024
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December 21, 2023
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August 9, 2023
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April 20, 2023
Loan assistance for farmers and fishers impacted by disasters
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March 20, 2023
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November 1, 2022
Fall 2022 Newsletter
Conservation
March 24, 2022
Discussing the new “Guide to Regenerative Grazing Leases”
Education
December 15, 2021
El Resilerador: resiliencia empresarial para su familia y futuro
Education
October 7, 2021
The Resilerator: Helping businesses become more resilient
Succession
April 30, 2021
The Regenerator: A Year of Farm Succession Planning
Education
January 15, 2021
The 2021 Resilerator is helping growers start the year off right!
Land Access
October 23, 2020
Landholders and Farmers connect using our Land Portal
Education
October 9, 2020
Farm Finance Forum: Responsible Borrowing in Uncertain Times
Education
August 20, 2020
Knowledge and practices for business resilience
Lending
June 3, 2020
A message from Reggie Knox, Executive Director
Education
March 9, 2020
Farm Finance Expo postponed until Sept. 30th
Education
November 22, 2019
Liya Schwartzman appointed to USDA Beginning Farmer Committee
Conservation
June 3, 2019
Peninsula Open Space Trust and California FarmLink Collaborate to Support Continuity for Andreotti Family Farm
Lending
February 20, 2019
Invest with us in the next generation.
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This Group Has Helped Farmworkers Become Farm Owners for More Than 2 Decades
Civil Eats
January 18, 2024
2024
Mastercard Strive awards nearly $2 million in grants to 11 innovative organizations supporting small businesses across the globe
Mastercard Strive
December 4, 2023
2023
Programs help new farmers find land, secure leases
Ag Alert, California Farm Bureau Federation
September 13, 2023
2023
FarmLink program helps farmers plan successions successfully
Western Livestock Journal
July 28, 2023
2023
California FarmLink Launches The Regenerator: A Year of Farm Succession Planning
AndNowUKnow: Produce Industry News
July 24, 2023
2023
Aging farmers toil well past retirement, with no heirs or desire to leave land they’ve tended for decades
The Oregonian
July 17, 2023
2023
Small growers feeling the pain of winter storms are frustrated at slow-moving government aid.
Monterey County Weekly
April 20, 2023
2023
Impact Lending Strengthens Compassion and Community – Opinion
The Jerusalem Post
February 8, 2023
2023
SBA Microloans
KULR-8
January 23, 2023
2023
Organic Grower Challenges and Solutions Explored in OGS Ed Session
Organic Produce Network
December 8, 2022
2022
California FarmLink part of Shared Success Project
Morning Ag Clips
November 3, 2022
2022
Assemblymember Garcia and local farm industry employees urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign a bill
KSEQ News Channel 3
September 21, 2022
2022
$550 million federal grant could help Central Coast farmers
KSBW Action News 8
August 25, 2022
2022
Minority Farmers Urge Court to Uphold Equal Protections
Law360
July 26, 2022
2022
Make Friends with a Farmer: Digging Into the Story of Food
Mighty Arrow Foundation
July 21, 2022
2022
The Future of Conservation and the Grazing Revolution: Farmers and Ranchers Ask Congress to Fund the Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
April 18, 2022
2022
What defines a small farm in California? It's complicated but critical to agriculture's future
Agri-Pulse
February 9, 2022
2022
As Farming Population Ages, New Partnership Offers Support and Tips for Transition Planning
AgNet
January 28, 2022
2022
Faith Investor Profiles: Impact Investing Pioneers - see Faith Investor Profile for CommonSpirit Health
Calvert Impact Capital
August 11, 2021
2021
Hasta la Raíz | Down to the Root
Patagonia Films
July 1, 2021
2021
Farm Credit supports FarmLink’s efforts to help people of color become farmers
Planting Seeds Blog, California Department of Food and Agriculture
June 24, 2021
2021
California FarmLink ["...aka the 'fairy godmother' of the California small-scale ag world..."]
Edible Marin & Wine Country
June 1, 2021
2021
New Finance Justice Fund Recipients Announced
Opportunity Finance Fund
May 3, 2021
2021
Bertha Magaña Grows Power, Possibility, and Organic Produce in the Salinas Valley
Latino Community Foundation
March 4, 2021
2021
Blossom's Farm Needs a New Home
Aptos Times
February 2, 2021
2021
Website connects land owners with next-generation farmers
Vacaville Reporter
October 19, 2020
2020
How Immigration and Trade Policy Have Shaped U.S. Agriculture
Life & Thyme
September 3, 2020
2020
Pandemic Spotlights Importance of Local Farms to Food Security
Resources Legacy Fund
August 31, 2020
2020
Comerica Bank Partners With Minority Depository Institutions
Los Angeles Sentinel
August 27, 2020
2020
Local Food Heroes: Curt Chittock & Starbright Acres
Sierra Harvest
June 21, 2020
2020
BriarPatch guarantees six new loans for area Farms and Ranches [in partnership with California FarmLink]
YubaNet
May 1, 2020
2020
In the Upper Midwest, Cracking the Code for Farmland Access
Civil Eats
March 2, 2020
2020
BriarPatch Catalyzing Local Farm and Ranch Loans
The Union: News for Nevada County
January 21, 2020
2020
Turning Farm Workers Into Farmers
The New York Times
November 27, 2019
2019
Wells Fargo ayuda a pequeños propietarios, con Javier Zamora, Propietario, JSM Organics / Wells Fargo supports small business owners with its Diverse Community Capital grant to California FarmLink
Despierta Área de la Bahía, KDTV Univision 14
November 19, 2019
2019
A Network of Foundations Takes on Big Ag by Financing Small Farmers and Sustainability
Inside Philanthropy
November 12, 2019
2019
NFU welcomes 13 new participants for its 2019-2020 Beginning Farmer Institute [Using an adaptation of FarmLink's Farm and Ranch Business Health Assessment]
Farm Forum
August 23, 2019
2019
Farmers grow the food. But who’s helping new farmers put down roots?
Christian Science Monitor
July 9, 2019
2019
Foundations Can Unlock a Food System to Feed the World, by Meredith Storton and Jennifer Astone
Stanford Social Innovation Review
June 27, 2019
2019
Nonprofits partner to assemble Andreotti farm
Half Moon Bay Review
June 4, 2019
2019
California FarmLink Cultivates Creative Capital for Underserved Farmers
Opportunity Finance Network
June 4, 2019
2019
Keeping it in the Family: The Andreotti Family Farm
Peninsula Open Space Trust
June 3, 2019
2019
Farm aid: More than 170 acres protected on two coastside farms
San Mateo Daily Journal
June 3, 2019
2019
As farmers age, they face the challenge of finding successors to take over
Marketplace - NPR/American Public Media,
May 21, 2019
2019
Farmers of Color May Soon Get More Support in California
Civil Eats
May 6, 2019
2019
Global Gardens expanding with loans from SBA, California FarmLink
Pacific Coast Business Times
May 2, 2019
2019
A Farmer Goes in Search of a Successor: The average age of a California farmer is 59. Who will grow our food when today’s farmers retire?
Capital Public Radio
April 23, 2019
2019
Investing for Impact: CFMC Invests $1.75 Million to Support Small Businesses Through FarmLink & Opportunity Fund
Community Foundation for Monterey County
April 17, 2019
2019
Zea Sonnabend, Fruitilicious Farm
California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity - CAMEO
April 10, 2019
2019
Finding the Next Farmer: Riverhill Farm
Capital Press
April 5, 2019
2019
The next egg: Investing our retirement savings in our local communities, by Janelle Orsi, Executive Director, Sustainable Economies Law Center
Shareable
April 2, 2019
2019
President's Blog: Impact Investing
Community Foundation for Monterey County
March 25, 2019
2019
Has New York Found the Secret to Linking Retiring Farmers and Eager Upstarts?
Civil Eats 1/8/19
January 8, 2019
2019
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