By Lydia Hsu
Lydia Hsu is a Farmer Providers Coordinator at Georgia Organics
The Farmer Providers staff right here at Georgia Organics is happy to formally introduce the farmers within the 2022-2024 Accelerator cohort!
The Georgia Organics Accelerator Program combines professional teaching with tailor-made on-farm investments to develop the vitality and resiliency of Georgia farms and enhance the standard of life for farmers.
The seven farms chosen for the 2022-2024 cohort are all doing unimaginable work to develop their farm merchandise and enterprise sustainably and organically. Every farm was chosen primarily based on their proposed utilization of this system, which incorporates figuring out three focus targets and one in-hand useful resource that the farms work in the direction of reaching and finishing by the tip of this system.
The Farmer Providers staff is working carefully with every farm to develop their targets and in-hand useful resource and help them over the subsequent two years as they execute their Accelerator plan. We’ve a strong listing of coaches that shall be working hand-in-hand with the farmers to offer technical help, steerage, and coaching on an unlimited array of subjects that assist them with long-term farm enterprise planning. In-hand sources can appear to be a Soil Fertility plan, a Meals Security plan, a Labor plan, a Transition plan, and extra!
The coaches may also advise farms on how one can maximize their Accelerator funding for his or her strategic capital investments. This funding could be utilized in the direction of farm bills, together with on-farm infrastructure, labor, healthcare, and advertising.