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New Entry FIELD Network Survey & Profile Update

A nationwide network of agricultural training programs, members of the FIELD Network share a common purpose of using land-based experiential learning to create new pathways to careers in agriculture and farm ownership. Comprising private farms, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, and other champions of next generation farmers and ranchers, the network includes incubator farms, apprenticeship training programs, campus farms, demonstration farms, and other experiential land-based farm and ranch training programs and agricultural collaboratives fostering experiential learning and land access. The FIELD network is facilitated by the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project. The FIELD Network is the result of a 2020 merger of the National Incubator Farm Training Initiative (NIFTI) and the Ag Apprenticeship Learning Network (AgALN). The FIELD Network hosts an annual FIELD School conference, monthly networking sessions, a resource library, and offers technical assistance to support professional development of staff operating land-based training program models.
New Entry hired new national program staff this year who are updating and consolidating our AgALN and NIFTI databases and will actively create new resources and maps for the FIELD Network. By completing this profile, you'll support the FIELD network's ongoing effort to provide useful data to the wider agricultural training community, and in turn support farmers across North America and around the world.
Your Name

TELL US ABOUT YOUR ORGANIZATION

The Basics
Name of university/college or other umbrella organization of which your program is a part (e.g., New Roots is a program of Catholic Charities and/or New Entry is a program of Tufts University)
The main point of contact for your Organization/ Program. You will have the opportunity to list up to 3 contacts, including yourself in the next section.
Your Work & Contact Details
Office Mailing Address

TELL US ABOUT YOUR PROGRAM

Which type of agricultural land-based skills development program do you operate? We'd like to know more about your program, whether you offer apprenticeship training or an incubator farm, you're university-based or something different altogether. If your program is not yet launched, tell us about your plans.
Program Type
A college credit is a unit that measures learning at accredited colleges and universities in the United States.
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Farm Production
This is the maximum capacity on your property, not necessarily how many farm businesses are currently there, but how many you have the space for.
This is the number of incubator/farm businesses currently farming. It is the number of plots leased, not the number of farmers. Base your response of the last growing season if you are in a season transition (i.e. just graduated farmers off the incubator but have not started the next cycle for program applicants yet).
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Apprentice Program
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Land Managed by organizational staff for purpose of land-based skills development
Technical Resources
We'd like to know the kind of technical resources you offer, how those are offered, and in what languages —
  • For each technical resource that you offer, indicate whether the resources is In-House, Partner Provided, or Both. If you offer a resource not suggested, you can use Other technical resource to briefly describe your "Other" resource.
  • If you don't provide a particular resource, choose Not Provided
We use this term to include career goal setting, networking, and one-on-one professional and personal support.
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Educational Resources
If you offer an educational resource listed below, select the language(s) in which that resources is offered. If you are responding on a computer, hold down key "ctrl"(or "command" on Macs) to select multiple languages. If you don't offer a particular resource, choose Not offered, which can be found at the bottom of the list. 
Other Program Features

Organizational Leadership & Staff Demographics
We'd like to know more about the primary (predominant) composition of your board (board of directors; president, board chair, vice president or vice chair, secretary, treasurer) and/or your leadership (Executive Director, Associate Director). If you do not have a board, answer for just your leadership. Your board and/or leadership are the members who oversee your organization's high-level strategy, accountability, and oversight. If you have a Parent Organization, answer based on your Organization's Leadership, not the Parent Organization. We also would like to know more about the primary (predominant) staff (Program Coordinators, Program Managers, Farm Directors etc.). We're not requesting precise data — just a general sense of your leadership structure and composition.
Consider everyone on your board and leadership. Is your organization's board and leadership over 50% of any race? If yes, that race is your primary (predominant) composition. If no, please select "Multiracial". If you do not have a board, answer for just your leadership.
Consider everyone on your primary staff that keeps your program running. Is your organization's primary staff over 50% of any race? If yes, that race is your primary (predominant) composition. If no, please select "Multiracial".

TELL US ABOUT YOUR PARTICIPANTS

Your participants over the last 12 months
Groups you serve
If you serve one of the populations identified below, indicate the approximate percentage of your participants who identify with that group. If you want to serve a population but have no participants to date, indicate the group in the Targeted but Unreached question.
We use this term to define someone who identifies as a woman, regardless of their sex assigned at birth.
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Who is still farming?
Secure Land Tenure of your Program Graduates







These challenges and barriers may or may not be related to land access.

ENGAGING WITH THE NETWORK

Resources you like
Which of New Entry's resources have you found most beneficial?
Resources you want
What resources would you like to see New Entry provide?

A few final questions


We will not share sensitive data, but would like to connect organizations with relevant models as questions arise. You also are welcome to ask questions and be connected with relevant work in the FIELD Network for a stronger impact together. For example, if you are developing business resources in a specific language, we can look for organizations who have in-house business resources in that language and make a connection.



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