California Farms
Places
Programs
  • Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) in California (USDA NRCS): helps safeguard the future of farmers, ranchers, and agricultural communities who depend on and sustain the land as a way of life, especially under a changing climate.​​​​​​
  • Apricot Lane Farm School - The Farm School is a nature-based homeschool bridge program for children in grades 1-5. The school is located at -- and deeply integrated with -- Apricot Lane Farms, a 234-acre certified organic & biodynamic farm in Moorpark, California.
  • Bright Horizon Seeds (Upside of Downs, Somis, CA)
  • CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act): CEQA allows for public comment during the review process. This can be an opportunity to educate the public about your farm and garner support for your operations.
  • California Rehabilitation Center (Norco): California Rehabilitation Center provides incarcerated individuals with agricultural job training and reintegration opportunities
  • Center for Farmworker Families (Fresno): Center for Farmworker Families provides educational and social services for farmworker families, including job training programs
  • City Slicker Farms (San Francisco): City Slicker Farms is a non-profit that offers job training and employment in urban agriculture for at-risk youth.
  • EARTH Academy (Sequoia Riverlands Trust): a year-long, project-based learning program for high school students in Tulare County to learn more about environmental issues in their local communities.
  • Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program (USDA NCRS): offers technical and financial assistance to help local communities relieve imminent threats to life and property caused by floods, fires, windstorms and other natural disasters that impair a watershed.
  • Homeboy Industries (Los Angeles): Homeboy Industries provides job training and employment in urban agriculture for formerly incarcerated individuals
  • Land Trust Alliance (Gaining Ground, Equitable Land Access): The Land Trust Alliance’s mission is to save the places people need and love by strengthening land conservation across America 
  • NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) California Office: address the natural resource conservation on private lands. NRCS defines "conservation" as wise use of natural resources - soil, water, air, plant, and animal - in order to sustain productivity of current and future generations.
  • Sentinel Landscapes Initiative (USDA NRCS): helps farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners around military installations and ranges to integrate conservation into working lands
  • Sequoia Riverlands Trust: protects over 40,000 acres of land around the Kaweah, Tule, Kern, and Kings Rivers, as well as in the Carrizo Plain, manages seven nature preserves, helps farmers and ranchers conserve agricultural land in the Central Valley, pioneers programs to educate students across Tulare County.
  • Upside of Downs (Somis, CA)
  • Williamson Act​ Program (Land Conservation Act of 1965 in California) and CEQA: The Williamson Act can be a valuable tool for small farms in CA by providing significant tax relief, ensuring the long-term viability of small-scale agriculture.