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Agritecture

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The consultancy and media hub for urban and vertical farming: blog, industry census, and farm-planning software.

Sharp commercial analysis of what pencils out indoors and what does not.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

American Beekeeping Federation

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The eighty-year-old federation for all beekeepers: conference, webinars, and mentorship for sideliners and hobbyists.

The national bee community, from two hives to two thousand.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

American Community Gardening Association

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The binational community-gardening nonprofit since 1978: garden-organizing toolkits, insurance guidance, and an annual conference.

How to start and keep a community garden without learning every lesson the hard way.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

American Dairy Goat Association

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The national dairy goat registry: herd registration, DHI milk testing, and shows.

Papers and production records for the dairy goat herd.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

American Farmland Trust

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No Farms No Food: the farmland protection nonprofit, with the Farmland Information Center and land-access resources.

Help thinking about land access, easements, and keeping farms farms.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

American Honey Producers Association

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The association of commercial honey producers: market advocacy and pricing intelligence.

What honey is actually worth and who is fighting for that price.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

American Horticultural Society

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The member gardening society since 1922: The American Gardener magazine and reciprocal garden admissions.

The genteel wing of American horticulture, with a good magazine.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

American Mushroom Institute

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The trade association of US mushroom growers since 1955: growing practices and Mushroom News.

The commercial mushroom industry's home base.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

American Pastured Poultry Producers Association

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The nonprofit for poultry raised on pasture: the Grit newsletter, processing and marketing know-how, and pastured standards.

Everything the pastured-poultry model has learned, from people doing it for a living.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

American Public Gardens Association

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The association of botanic gardens and arboreta: partnership and education resources.

The demonstration-garden world, useful for education partnerships.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

American Rabbit Breeders Association

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The national rabbit breeder registry and association: breed standards and a local club network.

The rabbit world's registry and its people.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

AmericanHort

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The largest US nursery, greenhouse, and garden-retail trade association, home of the Cultivate conference every July.

The horticulture industry's big tent and its biggest annual show.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Aquaponics Association

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The nonprofit for aquaponic growers of all sizes: video library, community forum, and an annual conference.

The fish-and-plants community, from backyard to commercial.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Association for Vertical Farming

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The global nonprofit for the indoor and vertical farming industry: network, summits, and education on vertical systems.

The international vertical-farming community in one place.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers

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The association for local cut-flower farmers: variety trials, grower forums, and The Cut Flower Quarterly.

The flower-farming community and its trial data, if blooms are your crop.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

ATTRA / NCAT

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The USDA-funded sustainable agriculture information service: hundreds of practical publications, a national farm internship board, and a hotline with a human on it (1-800-346-9140).

The single best free reference shelf in sustainable agriculture, plus someone to call.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

ATTRA Internship Board

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The national sustainable-farm internship and apprenticeship listing service.

Find on-farm training, or post your farm and find help that wants to learn.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

CEA Alliance

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The trade association of US vertical farms and high-tech greenhouse produce growers: best practices and food safety guidance for indoor produce.

The industry's own playbook for growing food indoors safely and at scale.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Center for Rural Affairs

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Great Plains rural advocacy nonprofit with strong beginning-farmer programs: Land Link matching and lending guides.

Beginning-farmer policy help and a matchmaking service for land.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

CGIAR

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The global network of fifteen agricultural research centers, with open-access crop research and the genebanks behind rice, maize, and potato.

The deepest open crop science on earth.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Community Alliance with Family Farmers

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California family-farm advocacy and technical assistance: climate-smart and food-safety guides that travel well beyond the state.

Small-farm technical help written for real small farms.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Cornell CEA Program

University program

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The leading university controlled-environment agriculture group: free hydroponic crop handbooks for lettuce and spinach, lighting and energy tools.

The free handbooks commercial hydro lettuce growers actually use.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

CSA Innovation Network

Community

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The national community strengthening the CSA movement: best practices, marketing materials, and a peer network.

How the best CSAs run theirs, shared freely.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship

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The first formal Department of Labor registered farming apprenticeship in the country: a paid two-year path to managing a grazing dairy.

A real trade apprenticeship, in dairy grazing, with a paycheck.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

eOrganic

University program

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  • Free

The national online organic agriculture community of practice: peer-reviewed articles, a webinar archive, and a video library.

University-vetted organic answers, the counterpart to ATTRA.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Experimental Farm Network

Community

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A volunteer participatory plant-breeding network: join real breeding projects from a backyard plot.

A seat in actual crop breeding, no degree required.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

FAO

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The UN's food and agriculture agency: FAOSTAT data for every country, crop production guides, and the canonical irrigation references.

The global picture, and reference works like FAO-56 that the whole field builds on.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Farm Aid

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The farmer-support nonprofit behind the concert: a crisis hotline (1-800-FARM-AID) and a farmer resource network.

A number to call when things get hard, and people who have helped farmers through it since 1985.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Farmer Veteran Coalition

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The nonprofit helping military veterans enter agriculture: a fellowship fund for equipment grants and the Homegrown by Heroes label.

If you served, a community and small equipment grants to get you farming.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Farmers Market Coalition

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The national nonprofit supporting farmers markets: manager toolkits, SNAP and EBT guidance, and metrics tools.

Everything a market vendor or market manager needs to run the thing right.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research

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The congressionally created nonprofit funding public-private agricultural research.

A window on where ag research money is flowing next.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

GLASE Consortium

University program

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The Cornell and RPI consortium on greenhouse lighting and controls, with an online course catalog and published research.

University-grade greenhouse lighting knowledge without enrolling.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Greenhorns

Community

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The grassroots cultural organization for young agrarians: the New Farmer's Almanac, a huge free resource list, and radio.

Culture and connection for the new-farmer movement, and one of the best link lists in agriculture.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Herb Society of America

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The herb education society: growing guides and plant profiles.

Herb knowledge with history behind it.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

IFOAM Organics International

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The global umbrella for the organic movement: principles and world organic statistics.

Organic as a worldwide movement, with the numbers to show it.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Kiss the Ground

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The media nonprofit that made regenerative agriculture a household phrase: stewardship courses and storytelling resources.

The gentle on-ramp to regenerative thinking, good for explaining it to your customers too.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Land For Good

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  • Free

The land-access nonprofit for farm seekers and retiring farmers, New England based, with planning tools used far beyond it.

Free land-access planning tools and advising for getting on, or passing on, a farm.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

LocalHarvest

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The longest-running national directory of small farms, CSAs, and markets, beloved for decades.

A free farm listing that customers actually find.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Marbleseed

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Midwest organic education nonprofit, formerly MOSES, running the largest organic farming conference in the country plus an Organic Answer Line.

Fact sheets, New Farmer U, and the big La Crosse conference every winter.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

National Agricultural Library

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One of the largest agricultural libraries in the world, with free topic guides on CSA, specialty crops, and organic.

The nation's ag bookshelf, open to everyone.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

National Farm to School Network

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The network connecting local farms with school cafeterias, with procurement guides for both sides.

A steady institutional sales channel and the paperwork map to reach it.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

National Farmers Union

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The general farm organization advocating for family farms since 1902, with co-op education and a beginning farmer institute.

A policy voice for the family-scale farm and training to go with it.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

National Grange

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The oldest US agricultural fraternal organization, founded 1867, with halls in seventeen hundred towns.

A rural community institution that may already have a hall near you.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

National Greenhouse Manufacturers Association

Organization

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The trade association of greenhouse manufacturers: structural standards and buying guidance for greenhouse construction.

The standards your greenhouse frame should meet, from the people who build them.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

National Urban Agriculture Initiative

University program

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  • Free

The Virginia State led USDA project equipping urban growers to actually use USDA services.

How to walk into an FSA or NRCS office as a city grower and come out with help.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

National Young Farmers Coalition

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The grassroots policy network for the next generation of farmers: land access advocacy, local chapters, and guides to credit and land.

The organized voice of beginning farmers, plus practical land and loan guides.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Native Seeds/SEARCH

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Southwest-focused seed conservation: arid-adapted crop varieties and seed-saving education.

Crops that already know how to handle heat and drought.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

NCERA-101 Controlled Environments Committee

University program

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The multi-university committee on controlled environment technology: the measurement and reporting guidelines researchers themselves use.

How the scientists measure growth chambers, free to copy.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

North American Raspberry and Blackberry Association

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The membership organization for bramble growers: production guides and the caneberry grower network.

The people who know brambles, if berries are your row.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

North American Strawberry Growers Association

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The strawberry grower association: research funding and production conferences.

The strawberry crowd and the research they fund.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Northeast Organic Farming Association

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Seven state chapters of organic farmers and gardeners, going since 1971: workshops, certification help, and a summer conference.

Your state chapter is the local organic community in the Northeast.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Ohio State OHCEAC

University program

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  • Free

Ohio State's Controlled Environment Agriculture Center: research, hydroponics workshops, and disease management resources.

Midwest CEA research and workshops with a practical bent.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Open Source Seed Initiative

Organization

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Copyleft for seeds: a pledge that keeps varieties free to save, replant, and breed from, forever.

Varieties no patent can ever take away from you.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

OpenTEAM

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The farmer-driven open technology ecosystem: interoperable open tools for farm records, soil health, and decision support.

The community wiring open farm tools together so your data enters once and works everywhere.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Organic Farming Research Foundation

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A nonprofit that funds organic farming research and translates it into free grower guides and webinars.

Research-based organic answers without reading the journals yourself.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Organic Seed Alliance

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The nonprofit for organic seed systems: free seed-production manuals and on-farm participatory breeding training.

How to grow your own seed crop properly, taught free.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Organic Trade Association

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The trade association for the organic industry: market data and regulatory tracking.

Where the organic market numbers and rule changes get reported first.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Pollinator Partnership

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The largest pollinator-conservation nonprofit, with free planting guides matched to your ecoregion by zip code.

Type your zip, get the exact planting guide for your ecological region, free.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Practical Farmers of Iowa

Community

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The gold standard of farmer-led research: members run replicated trials on their own farms and publish the results, hundreds of them, free.

Real on-farm trial data on cover crops, small grains, and horticulture, from farmers rather than salesmen.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Quivira Coalition New Agrarian Program

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Regenerative ranching nonprofit running paid eight-month apprenticeships on working Western ranches.

A paid path into regenerative ranching, boots on real ground.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Regenerative Organic Alliance

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The nonprofit behind the Regenerative Organic Certified label, a rung above USDA Organic covering soil, animals, and workers.

A certification ladder beyond organic, if your market rewards it.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Resource Innovation Institute

Organization

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The nonprofit benchmarking energy and water efficiency in controlled environment agriculture: free best-practice guides on lighting, HVAC, and water plus PowerScore benchmarking.

Free engineering-grade guides to cut your grow's power and water bills.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Rodale Institute

Organization

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The pioneer organic research farm, running since 1947, home of the long-running Farming Systems Trial comparing organic and conventional side by side.

Free consulting for organic transition and research-backed practice guides from the people who started it all.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Rogue Farm Corps

Organization

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Structured season-long farm internships and apprenticeships on Oregon host farms; the model program others copy.

Immersive training with a curriculum, not just a summer of weeding.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Savory Institute

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The holistic-management grazing network, with more than thirty training hubs worldwide.

Grazing-planning training through a regional hub if you run animals on grass.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Seed Savers Exchange

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The largest US nonprofit seed bank, twenty-seven thousand heirloom varieties in Decorah, Iowa, with a member-to-member exchange.

Heirlooms you cannot buy anywhere, and the community keeping them alive.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Slow Food USA

Organization

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The US arm of the good, clean, fair food movement: the Ark of Taste heritage varieties and local chapters.

Customers who care, and the heritage-variety honor roll.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Soil Health Institute

Organization

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A scientific nonprofit working out which soil health measurements actually matter and what they are worth in dollars.

Guidance on which soil health indicators are worth paying a lab to test.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

The Land Institute

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The research nonprofit breeding perennial grain crops, including Kernza, toward agriculture that does not need replanting every year.

A window into the perennial future of grain, with field days and publications.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

The Livestock Conservancy

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The heritage-breed conservation nonprofit since 1977: the Conservation Priority List, breed selection guides, and a breeder directory.

Which rare breed fits your farm, and who will sell you starting stock.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Urban Ag News

Publication / media

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The free trade publication covering urban agriculture and CEA in plain language, with serious greenhouse agronomy behind it.

Readable CEA education from people who have grown commercially.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Urban Growers Collective

Organization

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The Chicago urban-farm nonprofit whose farmer-training program is a national model for urban food production.

The blueprint for serious urban farming, proven on fourteen acres of Chicago.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

USDA Agricultural Research Service

Organization

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  • Free

USDA's in-house research agency, ninety-plus locations, public research on every crop, home of the National Agricultural Library.

The research your taxes already paid for, on whatever you grow.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

USDA SARE

Funding program

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  • Free

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education: USDA's grant program with four regional offices, farmer and rancher grants you can apply for directly, and a free book library that includes the standard texts.

Ten to thirty thousand dollars to try something on your own farm, and free full books like Building Soils for Better Crops.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

USDA Urban Agriculture (OUAIP)

Funding program

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USDA's Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production: urban ag grants, county-office navigation, and composting programs.

The federal front door for city growing, with money behind it.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Wageningen University and Research

University program

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The world's top agricultural university, in the Netherlands, and the reference point for greenhouse horticulture science.

Where greenhouse growing is studied hardest; their publications set the bar.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

WWOOF-USA

Community

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Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms, US chapter: work-exchange learning stays on fifteen hundred organic farms.

Learn by living on farms, or host learners on yours.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026

Xerces Society

Organization

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The invertebrate conservation nonprofit: the best free guides anywhere on pollinator habitat, beneficial insects, and pesticide risk.

Regional planting guides and honest answers on which sprays hurt your bees, organic ones included.

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Checked Aug 30, 2026