Growing Local Food Production

Helping urban farmers start or grow urban agriculture businesses

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Our

Mission

Growing Urban Farmers is a USDA-NRCS grant-funded program at SJCA, which is aimed at increasing local food production in our area by assisting those interested in becoming urban farmers or starting an urban agriculture business.

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Our Focus

Teachers

We are creating a statewide resource of teachers and mentors in all areas of agriculture.

We can match you to the right education programing to get you started farming.

Tools

We help with financial, marketing, human resources, and all the tools needed to run your farm, even a tractor.