training & capital for Farmers
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With funding from the USDA Farm Service Agency through a cooperative agreement with the Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), CAFF is partnering with Agroecology Commons, Food Access Los Angeles, Los Angeles Food Policy Council (LAFPC), Veggielution, and the University of California Agriculture & Natural Resources (UC ANR) to offer the Growing Urban Agriculture Fellowship program.
The goal of LAFPC’s Cultivating Farmers and Farms CDFA Grant Program is to build up the emerging yet historically under-resourced urban agricultural community throughout the Los Angeles region. This grant program will provide urban farmers with rapid, short-term support through the CDFA block grant funds in the form of subawards while also connecting farmers to resources to register with USDA Farm Service Agency and other USDA resources that can sustain their long-term growth and expanded impact.
Supporting local farmers is essential to a thriving food system. Our Farmers Resource Hub provides tools, funding opportunities, and policy guidance to help small and urban farmers grow sustainable businesses and increase food access in Los Angeles.
We reside, work, and cultivate food
on unceded Indigenous homelands.
We acknowledge and honor the descendants of the Tongva, Kizh, and Gabrieleño peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands). We pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.
As part of a greater foodshed, we would also like to pay respect to and honor the Chumash, Tataviam, Serrano, Kitanemuk, ʔíviĨuqaletem, Acjachemen, Payómkawichum, and any other tribal group possibly not mentioned. As a Food Policy Council for Los Angeles we recognize this land acknowledgment is limited and engagement is an ongoing process of learning and accountability. To learn more about these First Nations, visit here.