Northeast Farm Access

CREATING ACCESS TO FARMLAND. GROWING EQUITY.

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Selected Project Profiles

Mx Morningstar crew in CopakeNortheast 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. We consistently seek to build security and equity for all parties, and follow our NEFA social-investment criteria. Read more.

Copake Agricultural Center
Copake, New York

Crops in Copake fieldFarmland 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 12 months, it has purchased 192 acres, already moving 122 of the acres 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

Chester_thumbnailSituated on more than 270 acres of Orange County’s famously productive black dirt, the Chester Agricultural Center presents an opportunity to conserve land while putting it to its best use: growing clean, local food. In partnership with the Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Orange County Land Trust and others, NEFA is facilitating development of the Center, with its mission of farms, food and fairness. Read more.

Esopus Agricultural Center
Ulster, New York

kingston fieldIn March 2016, Northeast Farm Access contracted to purchase 209 acres of prime farmland, woodland and one residence on the Esopus Creek in Ulster, NY, bordering on Kingston. This unusual parcel—uniquely situated between a diversity of both natural habitats and intensive human development—will become home to the first of several farms comprising the Esopus Agricultural Center, NEFA’s third dynamic Hudson Valley project in as many years. Several area individuals who support local agriculture and farm-based learning opportunities have already pledged financial participation in NEFA’s latest social-investment project. Four experienced farm entities are poised to come online at the Center in 2016. Read more.

Meet NEFA

Northeast Farm Access, LLC, brings together farmers and social investors to revive and transform sustainable agriculture—yielding not just abundant clean, local food, but also a new generation of successful organic farmers. Our innovative projects create long-term access to farmland while also growing farmer and investor equity. With investor support, we buy land, transition it to organic, and lease it longterm and affordably to intermediate-level farmers. (Read more)

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NEWS from NEFA

  • Northeast Farm Access and Scenic Hudson Land Trust Deepen Collaboration
  • NEFA Expands Financial-Services Relationship with Farm Credit East
  • Copake Ag Center at Full Capacity as Lineage Farm Breaks Ground

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NEFA and Its Farmers

PRAISE FOR OUR MODEL

Enabling the next generation of young farmers to enter and stay in farming is one of the great challenges of our time. To succeed, they need land, affordable capital and reliable markets. Northeast Farm Access helps meet these needs by bringing together social investors, expert farmers, and available farmland.”
— Fred Kirschenmann, President, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture

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