Farmers and ranchers: Ever wonder if your farm is at risk because of a lurking legal problem? Do you wish you knew where to turn for the answers?
Those answers aren’t always easy to come by — especially for the most innovative, direct-to-consumer farmers. Discovering Resilience is a legal workshop designed just for you. This workshop empowers farmers and ranchers with the legal knowledge and skills you need to resolve legal vulnerabilities. You’ll walk away from this five-session, highly interactive, and producer-focused workshop ready to implement your own legal action plan and find legal answers with confidence. Plus, you’ll have a group of fellow producers to keep you on track.
Discover the 10 legal best practices in 5 core areas of farm law
Including Business Structures, Insurance, Employment Law, Land Leasing and Purchasing, & Diversification (value-added and agritourism)
Answer key legal questions for your farm or ranch.
How do I write an effective lease?
Should I form an LLC, S corporation, or neither?
What about hosting interns or working with volunteers; is that legal?
How should I manage the risks of guests getting injured when they visit my operation?
The most hands-on farm law workshop you’ll find:
Develop your farm’s legal resilience, engage with your peers, and tackle real-life questions in weekly online meetings (120 minutes) led by legal educators.
Create your own farm law action plan through interactive and practical exercises.
Build legal competence and confidence with guided discovery between weekly course meetings, including videos and online content.
Share your questions, referrals, tips, strategies, and more on our agriculture-focused social platform: the Community Commons.
Gain skills in effective communication so you can be your own best advocate.
Requirements
You are currently a farmer or rancher, or you have a strong business plan.
You have internet access able to sustain an online meeting with video.
You are available at the scheduled workshop meeting times (see meeting times below).
Here is what past participants have to say about Discovering Resilience:
"Like most farmers, I find the world of legal issues can be quite intimidating and overwhelming. Fortunately, Farm Commons takes complex issues and creates resources and tools that go beyond breaking down the complexity, reading them feels like you are sitting around the kitchen table over a cup of coffee talking to a smart friend."
"Farm Commons provides clear and useful guides, webinars and even a podcast to help understand common legal issues with farms in a variety of areas like leasing, contracts, farm business structures, food safety and insurance.
Farm Commons was an especially invaluable source of information in 2020 as federal programs and rules related to COVID-19 were quickly changing."
