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Ropeless crab gear cleared for spring Dungeness fishery; grants offered.

Monterey County Weekly

February 11, 2026

Conservancy Issues Vineyard Replanting Loan to First Winery

The Independent

January 22, 2026

Will an Agricultural Loan Help You Meet Your Goals?

University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR)

November 17, 2025

Ricky’s Farms Cultivates Business Growth in Castroville

California Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA)

September 26, 2025

We Love Our Farmers

The Vine, BriarPatch Food Co-op

UC ANR awards four grants to promote equitable land access in Southern California

University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources

Pathways to Impact: $2 million to support local farmers

Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

Shared Success Midpoint Evaluation Overview

Aspen Institute

California CDFI Invests in Farmers to Support Healthy and Prosperous Communities

Opportunity Finance Network

How Maine and California Fishing Families Can Secure Loans with California FarmLink and Coastal Enterprises, Inc

Partners of Commercial Fishermen

Nearly $700K in economic development grants awarded to Silicon Valley organizations

Silicon Valley Business Journal

October 31, 2024

After historic floods, the safety net failed small farmers

High Country News

ClimateBrief: Gaining Momentum, the California Agricultural Land Equity Task Force

CEB DailyNews Climate Brief (Join for free at https://research.ceb.com/register)

Strickland Gives New Farmers, Ranchers Early Financing Opportunities

Marilyn Strickland Washington’s 10th Congressional District

Bilingual class sets farmers up for business resilience

Ag Alert, California Farm Bureau Federation

This Group Has Helped Farmworkers Become Farm Owners for More Than 2 Decades

January 18, 2024

Mastercard Strive awards nearly $2 million in grants to 11 innovative organizations supporting small businesses across the globe

Mastercard Strive

December 4, 2023

Programs help new farmers find land, secure leases

Ag Alert, California Farm Bureau Federation

September 13, 2023

FarmLink program helps farmers plan successions successfully

Western Livestock Journal

California FarmLink Launches The Regenerator: A Year of Farm Succession Planning

AndNowUKnow: Produce Industry News

Aging farmers toil well past retirement, with no heirs or desire to leave land they’ve tended for decades

Small growers feeling the pain of winter storms are frustrated at slow-moving government aid.

Monterey County Weekly

Impact Lending Strengthens Compassion and Community – Opinion

The Jerusalem Post

February 8, 2023

January 23, 2023

Organic Grower Challenges and Solutions Explored in OGS Ed Session

Organic Produce Network

December 8, 2022

California FarmLink part of Shared Success Project

Morning Ag Clips

November 3, 2022

Assemblymember Garcia and local farm industry employees urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign a bill

KSEQ News Channel 3

September 21, 2022

$550 million federal grant could help Central Coast farmers

KSBW Action News 8

August 25, 2022

Minority Farmers Urge Court to Uphold Equal Protections

Make Friends with a Farmer: Digging Into the Story of Food

Mighty Arrow Foundation

The Future of Conservation and the Grazing Revolution: Farmers and Ranchers Ask Congress to Fund the Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

What defines a small farm in California? It's complicated but critical to agriculture's future

February 9, 2022

As Farming Population Ages, New Partnership Offers Support and Tips for Transition Planning

January 28, 2022

Faith Investor Profiles: Impact Investing Pioneers - see Faith Investor Profile for CommonSpirit Health

Calvert Impact Capital

August 11, 2021

Hasta la Raíz | Down to the Root

Patagonia Films

Farm Credit supports FarmLink’s efforts to help people of color become farmers

Planting Seeds Blog, California Department of Food and Agriculture

California FarmLink ["...aka the 'fairy godmother' of the California small-scale ag world..."]

Edible Marin & Wine Country

New Finance Justice Fund Recipients Announced

Opportunity Finance Fund

Bertha Magaña Grows Power, Possibility, and Organic Produce in the Salinas Valley

Latino Community Foundation

Blossom's Farm Needs a New Home

February 2, 2021

Website connects land owners with next-generation farmers

Vacaville Reporter

October 19, 2020

How Immigration and Trade Policy Have Shaped U.S. Agriculture

September 3, 2020

Pandemic Spotlights Importance of Local Farms to Food Security

Resources Legacy Fund

August 31, 2020

Comerica Bank Partners With Minority Depository Institutions

Los Angeles Sentinel

August 27, 2020

Local Food Heroes: Curt Chittock & Starbright Acres

BriarPatch guarantees six new loans for area Farms and Ranches [in partnership with California FarmLink]

In the Upper Midwest, Cracking the Code for Farmland Access

BriarPatch Catalyzing Local Farm and Ranch Loans

The Union: News for Nevada County

January 21, 2020

Turning Farm Workers Into Farmers

The New York Times

November 27, 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

A Network of Foundations Takes on Big Ag by Financing Small Farmers and Sustainability

Inside Philanthropy

November 12, 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]

August 23, 2019

Farmers grow the food. But who’s helping new farmers put down roots?

Christian Science Monitor

Foundations Can Unlock a Food System to Feed the World, by Meredith Storton and Jennifer Astone

Stanford Social Innovation Review

California FarmLink Cultivates Creative Capital for Underserved Farmers

Opportunity Finance Network

Nonprofits partner to assemble Andreotti farm

Half Moon Bay Review

Farm aid: More than 170 acres protected on two coastside farms

San Mateo Daily Journal

Keeping it in the Family: The Andreotti Family Farm

Peninsula Open Space Trust

As farmers age, they face the challenge of finding successors to take over

Marketplace - NPR/American Public Media,

Farmers of Color May Soon Get More Support in California

Global Gardens expanding with loans from SBA, California FarmLink

Pacific Coast Business Times

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

Investing for Impact: CFMC Invests $1.75 Million to Support Small Businesses Through FarmLink & Opportunity Fund

Community Foundation for Monterey County

Zea Sonnabend, Fruitilicious Farm

California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity - CAMEO

Finding the Next Farmer: Riverhill Farm

The next egg: Investing our retirement savings in our local communities, by Janelle Orsi, Executive Director, Sustainable Economies Law Center

President's Blog: Impact Investing

Community Foundation for Monterey County

Has New York Found the Secret to Linking Retiring Farmers and Eager Upstarts?

Civil Eats 1/8/19

January 8, 2019

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