
Western Region Agricultural
Stress Assistance Program (WRASAP)
Dry Farming Institute
OUR VISION: Empowering growers to thrive with less water. OUR MISSION: Increase knowledge and awareness of practices that enable growers to produce crops with little to no irrigation Support stewardship of water, soil and seeds for resilience.
Service areas: Idaho, Oregon, Washington
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Core Services: Direct Marketing Assistance, Institutional & Wholesale Markets, Research, Technical Assistance, & Education
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Uprooted & Rising
We are a supermajority Black, Indigenous, and People of Color movement led by people who have been historically marginalized in our food system. We include students, workers, faculty, food producers, and community members that institutions of higher education are meant to serve. Support the needs of small-scale producers wanting to move towards institutional markets, facilitating connections and negotiations between colleges and universities and local producers while supplying farmers with the materials, infrastructure, certifications, and other resources required to scale to meet their procurement needs.
Service areas: National
Go to Website | Phone: (518) 945-0041
Core Services: Activism & Organizing, Industrial Ag Issues, Institutional & Wholesale Markets, Resources for BIPOC Farmers
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Fibershed
Fibershed is a non-profit organization that develops regional fiber systems that build ecosystem and community health. Our work expands opportunities to implement climate benefitting agriculture, rebuild regional manufacturing, and connect end-users to the source of our fiber through education. We transform the economic systems behind the production of material culture to mitigate climate change, improve health, and contribute to racial and economic equity.
Service areas: California
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Core Services: Institutional & Wholesale Markets
General Services: Activism & Organizing, Research, Technical Assistance, & Education
Eat Local First
Local food means food that is grown, caught, raised, and made right here in Washington State. The Washington Food & Farm Finder will connect you with local food growers and producers.
Service areas: Washington
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Core Services: Direct Marketing Assistance, Institutional & Wholesale Markets
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Agri-cultura Network
As a cooperative with five South Valley member farms and many allied farms statewide, our wholesale business program aggregates, processes, delivers, collects customer payment, and distributes farm payment. In addition, we support development of farm capacity while providing nutrition education and food access through a CSA and community events.
Service areas: New Mexico
Go to Website | Phone: (505) 217-2461
Core Services: Institutional & Wholesale Markets, Research, Technical Assistance, & Education, Resources for Beginning Farmers
General Services: Financial & Business Planning
Organization for Competitive Markets
Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) is a national leader working to bring about economic justice for family farmers, ranchers and rural communities by fighting to break the the abusive corporate power that extracts the wealth out of their pockets. OCM provides a platform for individuals and organizations to join their voices in demanding fairness and justice within the marketplace. Working together we can ensure everyone receives their fair share of America’s prosperity that they build. By becoming a member you will have access to the information and tools you need to join the fight.
Service areas: Alabama, California, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Virginia, Wyoming
Go to Website | Phone: (402) 327-8390
Core Services: Activism & Organizing, Industrial Ag Issues, Institutional & Wholesale Markets, Research, Technical Assistance, & Education
General Services: Resources for Tribal Farmers & Ranchers
Northwest Agricultural Business Center
Northwest Agriculture Business Center (NABC) provides northwest Washington farmers with the skills and the resources required to profitably and efficiently supply their products to consumers, retailers, wholesalers, foodservice operators and food manufacturers. Its main office is located in Mt Vernon in the heart of Washington’s Skagit Valley farm region.
Service areas: Washington
Go to Website | Phone: (360) 336-3727
Core Services: Direct Marketing Assistance, Financial & Business Planning, Institutional & Wholesale Markets
General Services: Funding Opportunities for Farmers, Institutional & Wholesale Markets
Interfaith Sustainable Food Collaborative
The Interfaith Sustainable Food Collaborative works to reconnect religious people to a sustainable food system through their faith community and expand the base of the sustainable agricultural movement in order to improve public policy.
Service areas: California, National
Go to Website | Phone: 707.634.4672
Core Services: Direct Marketing Assistance, Institutional & Wholesale Markets
General Services: Activism & Organizing
Farm to Table – New Mexico
Farm to Table enhances marketing opportunities for farmers; encourages family farming, farmers’ markets and the preservation of agricultural traditions; informs public policy; and, furthers understanding of the links between farming, food, health and local economies.
Guided by our core value, Farm to Table focuses on community capacity building strategies that empower individuals, families, enterprises, and groups to effectively address place-based solutions through policy development, advocacy, and social enterprise facilitation that support access to affordable, nutritious and culturally relevant foods while creating livelihood opportunities for families.
Service areas: New Mexico
Go to Website | Phone: 505-660-8403
Core Services: Institutional & Wholesale Markets
General Services: Direct Marketing Assistance
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The Western Region Agricultural Stress Assistance Program is supported by the USDA Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network, under agreement number: 2020-70028-32731 proposal number: 2020-07631
The Western Region Agricultural Stress Assistance Program is an equal access/equal opportunity program.