Northeast Farm Access, LLC, is currently supporting the following farm projects by building strong connections between investors, farmers and farmland. Our role in these projects expresses our dedication to farm access across a broad, diverse social base. All projects creatively link investments in farmland to the development and support of sustainable agricultural ventures. In all of these projects, we seek to build security and equity for all parties. Read more.
Copake Agricultural Center
Copake, New York
Farmland Renewal LLC’s Copake Agricultural Center was formed in 2014 to bring together farmers and social investors to develop an important and innovative project that creates long-term access to farmland while also growing farmer and investor equity. In just twelve months, it has purchased and moved 122 acres out of “conventional” agriculture into organic farming practices, produced tons of edibles and flowers, and begun to revitalize an entire community. Read more.
Chester Agricultural Center
Chester, New York
Located on the famously productive black dirt of Orange County, the Chester Agricultural Center is an opportunity to both conserve and use the land for its best use: growing good, local food. In partnership with the Ralph E. Ogden Foundation and Orange County Land Trust, NEFA is facilitating the development of the Chester Agricultural Center as a place to grow food, address regional social justice issues, and engage with the community. Read more.
South Hill Farm
New Boston, New Hampshire
Preserving the agricultural use of the 195 acre South Hill Farm, located in New Boston, New Hampshire, is the principal goal of this NEFA project. The original Farm, built in 1750, consisted of 400 acres of land granted by the King of England (known as a King’s Grant). The original homestead is a picturesque example of a traditional New England farm and has a long history of family farming. Read more.
Wyda Farm
Hudson Valley, New York
Wyda Farm LLC is undertaking an innovative plan that will provide farmers with secure land access, connect the public to woodland walking trails, and act as a hub for local food enthusiasts. After three generations as a working farm, this town’s edge farm is at risk from commercial and industrial development. The farmers and community members have come together in Wyda Farm LLC, which has contracted the property for purchase in September 2014. Read more.
Homestead Community Farm
Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts
NEFA has helped nurture Homestead Community Farm since its beginnings, meeting in the office of Brookfield Farm, to last year’s summer program and this year’s plans for more. These area residents seek to create a farm-based home for themselves and their young adult children with intellectual challenges. Read more.
Avena Botanicals
Rockport, Maine
NEFA is helping Avena to plan for expansion of its educational infrastructure and program financing in the context of recapitalization from founder mode and succession to its next organizational stage. Read more.
New Co-op Farmland Project
(various stages of consideration/development in NY, MA, NH, ME)
NEFA’s cooperative farming initiative is based on the development of an interconnected group of cooperatively owned and managed diversified “modern” farms. We are identifying and organizing a cohort of farm seekers with complementary skills and aspirations to participate in multi-farmer operations, convening vegetable, livestock, ag-educational and/or ag-tourism or other enterprises. We believe in the Rochdale principle that “cooperation among cooperatives” yields the best, most lasting results. Read more.
