Mountain Meat Summit
This conference is geared toward individuals and businesses that engage with meat supply chains in the Mountain West including chefs, processors, educators, producers, and wholesale buyers.
Matson Consulting
Matson Consulting understands the needs of agricultural and rural business ventures. By utilizing a practical hands-on approach, we are able to focus on clients’ needs, whether they be an individual farmer or a regional organization, and form lasting partnerships. Our record in applying state-of-the-art methodologies to help clients succeed is proof of our dedication.
MarketMaker
MarketMaker is an electronic farm directory/food marketing/educational tool providing information about products, availability, affiliations, attributes, certifications and more. With more than 18,000 profiles of food-related enterprises, MarketMaker provides an important online presence for farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses who otherwise may not be spotlighted.
Grapevine VAPG Letter of Support + VAPG Marketing Plans
Whether you’re working with a grant writing consultant or taking a DIY approach, Grapevine Local Food Marketing is here to help. Our team will provide you with the materials you need to support the marketing portion of your VAPG application.
Good Meat Project
The Good Meat Project is on a mission to advance an ethical meat system. We achieve our mission and vision through education, tool building, knowledge sharing, peer-to-peer learning, and marketplace experimentation and collaboration. Resources include the Good Meat® Resource Library (materials for farmers, ranchers, butchers, processors, chefs, and advocates), Marketing Fundamentals Course, and Peer-to-Peer Learning.
Good Food Funding Guide
We created the Good Food Funding Guide listing sources of grants, loans, and equity for businesses and programs promoting sustainable food and agriculture and local economies.
Get Real Chicken
Get Real Chicken is a project of American Pastured Poultry Producers Association that enables customers to find a pastured poultry farmer near them. Getting listed is an included benefit for APPPA members.
Food Works Group
We are a women-owned advisory firm that measures, strategizes and supports progress across the food system. We advise clients on business planning and development; project feasibility, need, and best practices; food hub networking; culinary operations; and food production.
FARMpreneurs
FARMpreneurs' mission is to enhance the success, profitability, and resilience of community-based farming businesses. We achieve this through entrepreneurial business education programs, including our flagship week-long Strategic Sprint.
Ellen Rawley
"I’ve secured over $5 million dollars in funding for small farmers through this grant. When I write a grant for you or you move through the mentorship we follow this step-by-step process designed to produce a well scoring application."
Edible-Alpha
The Edible-Alpha® podcast is your source for actionable insights into making money in food. Hosted by the Food Finance Institute, we talk to a wide range of stakeholders about what it really takes to grow a successful food or farm business.
Eco-Ag Conference (ACRES)
Held in December. The Eco-Ag Conference & Trade Show sets a new standard for innovative and practical learning in modern agriculture. This is not your average regenerative farming conference. Eco-Ag is the premier conference for science-based sessions on regenerative agriculture. You will learn techniques and tactics you can immediately take home to the farm and put into practice. Each moment of programming is thoughtfully curated to provide useful, practical and measurable information and connections that you can apply to your operation.
DSuput Consulting
DSuput Consulting partners with organizations committed to transforming the agriculture and food landscape. We specialize in fostering the transition to regenerative agriculture, supporting farm viability, and facilitating access to capital.
Cornell Small Farms Program
We offer a suite of more than 30 online courses to help farmers improve their technical and business skills.
Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF)
We build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems.
Civil Eats Food Policy Tracker
Every day, decisions are made in Washington, D.C. that have profound consequences for how we grow, process, transport, and consume food in this country.
We’re keeping track: Consider this your go-to source for actions taken by the president, federal agencies, and Congress that directly relate to or have significant implications for the food system.
CAFF Farmer Funding Opportunities Database
The funding opportunities database allows you to easily see when grants are open for application, which on-farm activities or subjects they fund, paperwork needed for application, and more.
CAFF Small Farm Tech Hub
Free technical support available to CA based farms, farmers markets, and food hubs seeking ways to access or expand their use of web-based technologies including e-commerce & online sales, social media, marketing, and much more!
Builders Initiative
Philanthropy & Impact Investing. Builders Initiative invests in and collaborates with non-profits, businesses, and others working towards sustainable solutions to societal and environmental challenges.