Resources
Below you will find resources on nonprofit land ownership, land trusts and commons that are sure to educate, inspire, and inform!
Farm Commons
Farm Commons provides many resources, guidance and template documents here on the legal side of farm business operations, structures and ownership.
Imagining Land Justice
From the Nuns and Nones Land Justice Project, the Imagining Land Justice guidebook series brings core principles of land justice to life through real case studies, context, scenarios, and stories. Available as free PDF download!
Temple Wilton Community Farm
Here you can read about Temple Wilton Community Farm, a farm that is owned in community, and is foundational as it carried forward the subscription agriculture model by co-founding the Community Supported Agriculture model in 1984. It evolved the community land trust model by creating the Community Supported Land Tenure model in 2016.
Build-A-Lease Tool
The Land For Good, Build-a-Lease Tool will help you develop or improve your farm lease. With this tool you can:
- Learn about farm leases
- Build a working version of a lease agreement that fits your situation or intent
- Share, review and edit the Tool output with your attorney and the other party
Purpose Economy
Purpose Economy provides a great overview of and resources on stewardship and ownership.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is an academic and policy focused think tank that develops useful resource and research publications.
Grounded Solutions
Grounded Solutions provides many resources on Community Land Trusts here, including a Start-up Guide and a Technical Guide.
The Food Commons 2.0
The “Food Commons” is an anticipatory response to the food and land sovereignty movement. It is a regional, whole systems demonstration project, which can serve as a model for actualizing the food revolution in communities everywhere.
Bite-Sized Legal Guides from SELC
Have a legal question but not quite ready to read a full legal guide? These Bite-Sized Legal Guides are a great place to start! Find info on worker cooperatives, nonprofits, food and farming, and more!
IRS Code 107h
Land trusts are 501(C)(3) nonprofit legal structures codified in IRS code 107h; holding a mission focused on title ownership and/or conservation easements to real estate for the qualified public good. Land trusts have varied missions, goals, land engagement and focus priorities.
The Internal Revenue Services further codifies land trust activities in:
Land Conservation Assistance Network
Land Conservation Assistance Network is a comprehensive resource for farmers, foresters, ranchers and other landowners who wish to make more responsible, sustainable decisions about the use and future of their land.
Land Trust Alliance
The Land Trust Alliance is focused on empowering and mobilizing land trusts in communities across the United States to conserve and connect people to the land.
The Schumacher Center for New Economics
The Schumacher Center for New Economics curates a North American Community Land Trust Directory.
Access to Land
The Access to Land network brings together grassroots organisations from across Europe to share experiences and promote the significance of access to land for agroecological transition and generational renewal.
Young Agrarians
Young Agrarians - Transition Toolkit for Non-Family Farm Transfer is a resource kit for anyone curious about – or neck-deep in – alternative ways to transition land and farms from one generation to the next.
American Farmland Trust Land
The American Farmland Trust Land Access Training Curriculum builds core skills that land seekers need so they can find and secure land.
Finding Farmland Calculator
The National Young Farmers Coalition offers this Finding Farmland Calculator as a resource to understand the cost and affordability of farmland.
Farmland Commons
Farmland Commons are two or more nonprofit organizations using nested subsidiary organizations to hold title to farm real estate for localized control, shared stewardship, and active agriculture and stewardship practices through lease tenure. Nonprofit title holding subsidiary affiliate entities are:
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