Farm Business Planning 3D

Farm Business Planning Virtual 3D with Sarah Sohn and Leah Penniman

The 3D series is a multidimensional workshop series designed for B.I.P.O.C. (Black, Indigenous, &/or People of Color) to deepen skills in specific farming and land stewardship practices in a culturally relevant, supportive, and joyful environment.

Are you dreaming up a values-driven farm or land project, or refining your goals for your existing farm? Join us for Farm Business Planning to help turn your dreams into actionable goals and strategies. During this information-rich, heart-centered session, Sarah Sohn and Leah Penniman will guide the group to:

• Learn the purpose and components of a farm business plan
• Draft ideas for the vision and purpose sections of your business plan and share with others
• Delve into the budget and revenue forecasting components of business planning
• Review the resources available to you to implement your plan

Graduates of this 3D will be welcome to attend a follow up, small group coaching session to continue working on their business plan.

Language: The instruction will be delivered in English.

Cost: The sliding scale is $5-100. Please think generously - what could be more important to contribute to than living food, land sovereignty, and skilled farmers spreading the love and knowledge?!

The workshop is designed to be a culturally relevant and safe space that centers Black, Indigenous and People of Color (read why here).

Donations are accepted from those who would like to support BIPOC participant attendance. Following the workshop those who donate will receive a recording of the virtual event and any accompanying educational resources.

Registration and donations close Wednesday, November 9 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.

Presenters:

Sarah Sohn (she/her) is Co-Manager of the Braiding Seeds Fellowship. Sarah has worked on small vegetable farms on and off since she was a teenager and has had the joy of working with hundreds of brilliant beginning farmers since 2015. She is deeply honored to be working with this cohort of Braiding Seeds fellows and the Soul Fire Farm team. Sarah is Korean American and grew up in Michigan, which is where she worked on her first farm and learned to grow garlic, the vegetable she remains most identified with to this day: sometimes pliant, sometimes a little rigid in the stalk, sometimes curly, always stinky. Fellow garlic people: we contain multitudes!

Leah Penniman (li/she/ya/elle) is a Black Kreyol farmer, author, mother, and food justice activist who has been tending the soil and organizing for an anti-racist food system for 25 years. She currently serves as founding co-ED and Farm Director of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York, a Black & Brown led project that works toward food and land justice. Her books are Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land (2018) and Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists (2023). Find out more about Leah’s work at www.soulfirefarm.org and follow her @soulfirefarm on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered training farm committed to ending racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. Our food sovereignty programs reach over 10,000 people each year, including farmer training for Black and Brown growers, reparations and land return initiatives for northeast farmers, food justice workshops for urban youth, home gardens for city-dwellers living under food apartheid, doorstep harvest delivery for food insecure households, and systems and policy education for public decision-makers.