Resources and Links
Sustainable Agriculture Information
National Sustainable Agriculture Info Service
Northwest Agriculture Business Center
Northwest Coop Development Center
Tilth Producers of Washington
Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network
WSU Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources
Resources for Farmers Seeking Land or Loans
Find Land to Lease or Farmers to Farm It
Farmlink
Financial Resources and Farm Loans
Farm Service Agency – www.fsa.usda.gov
Northwest Farm Credit Services
Irrigation Cost Share and other programs
Farm News from the Western USA
Capital Press - http://www.capitalpress.info/index.asp
Ear to the ground - http://www.landstewardshipproject.org/podcast.html
Farmland Preservation and Sustainable Farming Resources
Local and State
Future of Farming, Washington State Plan - http://agr.wa.gov/FoF/
General Resources - www.mrsc.org/subjects/planning/farmland.aspx#local
Office of Farmland Preservation – http://ofp.scc.wa.gov/
PCC Farmland Trust - www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/farmtrust/
Thurston County Conservation District - www.thurstoncd.com/
Thurston County Working Lands Plan - http://www.co.thurston.wa.us/permitting/agriculture-advisory-committee/working-lands-strategic-plan.htm
National and Western Region
American Farmland Trust - www.farmland.org
Farmland Protection Toolbox Fact Sheet - www.farmlandinfo.org/documents/27761/FS_Toolbox_10-02.pdf
Institute for Rural Innovation and Stewardship -http://iris.wvc.edu
Land Stewardship Project - www.landstewardshipproject.org
Community Land Trust Information & Resources
General Land Trust Information
Institute for Community Economics - http://www.iceclt.org/clt/cltmodel.html
Land Trust Alliance – Directory of members - http://www.ltanet.org/landtrustdirectory/
National Community Land Trust Network - http://www.cltnetwork.org/
Some other Land Trusts in Washington
Homestead Community Land Trust http://www.homesteadclt.org/
Kulshan CLT
Lopez Community Land Trust http://www.lopezclt.org/
OPAL Community Land Trust http://www.opalclt.org
San Juan Community Home Trust http://hometrust.org/