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Community stakeholders and prospective board members who:

• • Include exiting and/or entering farmers
  • Include an in-state attorney
  • Willing to donate and/or provide discounted service to board and/or serve
• Include community partners that may include representation from:
  • Land trusts
  • Food and/or Farm support organizations

• Include at least five people committed to serving on volunteer board
• Demonstrate willingness, skills, experience, and networks in legal, fundraising, communications, real estate transfer, agriculture, and farm viability/support

Geographic location that is in a regional foodshed/farm to market based size and has:

• Demonstrated need for improved farmland access and secure tenure
• Opportunities for preserving legacy biodynamic, organic, and regenerative farms, for manifesting BIPOC land justice, and/or for community based regenerative food production based agricultural practices

Viable Farmland Project must include:

• Farmland and infrastructure to support “agrarian enterprises” (including, but not limited to diversified production of food, forage, fiber, medicine, and ecological stewardship)
• Soils sufficient to support agricultural uses
• Secure, sufficient quantity and quality water to support agricultural use
• No existence or evidence of overly contaminated soil or water, or have the ability and capacity to remedy
• Location and scale sufficient to support production that can provide economic enterprise viability and have community benefit
• Housing and farm infrastructure onsite, possibility of developing housing and farm infrastructure onsite, or opportunity to legally tie housing and farm infrastructure to property
• A landowner who demonstrates alignment and willingness to:
  • Enter into a Full Donation or Discounted Purchase Option agreement:
  • Within 8 months of initial conversations
  • That allows a minimum of 12 months but up to 24 months to closing
  • Collaborate to engage existing farm community to raise awareness and funding support