ORGANIZATION

California Farmlink

Phone:
707-829-1691

Sponsored and Affiliated Programs

The project will expand the nation's first agricultural Individual Development Account (IDA) pilot programs to 8 states in order to assist beginning farmers in building an asset base for land purchases and capital expenditures.
Individual Development Accounts or IDAs, are special matched savings accounts designed to help families and individuals establish a pattern of regular saving and, ultimately, purchase something likely to return substantial long-term benefits to i
"Our mission is to build family farming and conserve farmland in California by linking aspiring and retiring farmers; and promoting techniques and disseminating information that facilitate intergenerational farm transitions."
In 1997, ten farmers from northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin founded the Upper Midwest Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training (CRAFT), the second CRAFT program in the U.S.