Farmer Resource Library

New Entry's farmer library has hundreds of resources on sustainable farming, marketing, and operating a successful small business. Our physical library at our office in Beverly, MA contains books, CD's, DVD's periodicals, pamphlets, and videos in English, Spanish, Hmong, and Khmer. You can also search the directory below for downloadable digital resources, helpful web sites, and online farming videos.

Please visit or email us at nesfp@tufts.edu if you can't find what you're looking for here. Sometimes we are out in the field, so it's best to let us know if you're planning on stopping by.

New Entry's Farmland Matching Service Spatial Innovations

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This video tells the story of an innovative technique that New Entry is using to find land for new farmers in MA. By using spatial analysis, they can get a list of landowners to target. By working with community members, they develop a process for outreach that is appropriate for specific towns. Through this method, new farmers are finding land every year.

New Farmer's Guide: Cultivating Success at Farmers Markets

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  • Digital Download

PDF guide for farmers to cultivate success at farmers markets.  Includes best practices on how to enter a market (including permiting and paper work) how to sustain business and market your product.  All Regions.  English Level: Advanced. Farming Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Literacy Level: Advanced.  Key Words: farmers market, marketing,  business.

New Hampshire: Basics in Farm Employment Law

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  • Digital Download

Farmers benefit from building knowledge about often nuanced and complex farm labor legal obligations. Farmers need to know more about their employment law obligations before they can set priorities, decide on action steps and begin to take action.  This fact sheet covers basic farm employment law in New Hampshire:  minimum wage, overtime, meal and rest breaks, workers' compensation, and unemployment insurance.

New Jersey: Basics in Farm Employment Law

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  • Digital Download

Farmers benefit from building knowledge about often nuanced and complex farm labor legal obligations. Farmers need to know more about their employment law obligations before they can set priorities, decide on action steps and begin to take action.  This fact sheet covers basic farm employment law in New Jersey:  minimum wage, overtime, meal and rest breaks, workers' compensation, and unemployment insurance.

New Markets for Your Crops

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  • Digital Download

Guide in English for farmers who are looking to expand their sales to larger markets. First half is a cartoon guide at a nonfluent level 2, second half provides institutional resources in different regions for potential sales at a fluent level 4.  Farming Level: intermediate. Key words: pricing, marketing, business planning.

New York: Basics in Farm Employment Law

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  • Digital Download

Farmers benefit from building knowledge about often nuanced and complex farm labor legal obligations. Farmers need to know more about their employment law obligations before they can set priorities, decide on action steps and begin to take action.  This fact sheet covers basic farm employment law in New York:  minimum wage, overtime, meal and rest breaks, workers' compensation, and unemployment insurance.

NFDP Land Handouts

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  • Digital Download

Handouts from Grow NYC's New Farmer Development Program that address finding land, legal issues, valuable resources, and intake forms.

NFDP-Marketing

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  • Digital Download

Approximately 40 pages of curriculum, handouts, worksheets and presentations designed to teach marketing to new farmers developed by the New Farmer Development Project of Grow NYC.

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