This handbook is intended to demystify water rights and provide the basic tools for understanding what a water right provides and what it does not.

A collection of free resources relevant to farmers seeking farmland.

Build-A-Lease will help you develop or improve your farm lease. It includes definitions, helpful FAQs, sample language, and fill-in space for the most common sections of a farm lease.

Learn about USDA resources and support for Beginning Farmers.

The Office of Farmland Preservation published a workbook (available in English and Spanish) for families who want to keep their farmland in production or as it passes to the next generation. Topics covered in the workbook include developing your vision, evaluating farm resources, understanding farm transfer tools, and preparing to meet with professional advisers.

Guides for risk management planning, strategic business planning, how lending decisions are made, preparing agricultural financial statements, the borrower-lender relationship, land buying checklist, and understanding key financial ratios and benchmarks.

The National Young Farmers Coalition has published a guidebook to help young farmers and ranchers navigate the credit options offered by the Farm Service Agency.

Farm Commons provides legal workshops, timely resources, and a community for farmers, ranchers, and their service providers. Welcome to your home for farm law!

The Experience Farming Project is a self-directed and participant-driven opportunity for aspiring farmers to gain valuable hands-on experience while independently working a plot of land at one of two locations in the Snoqualmie Valley.

The Washington Food & Farm Finder is intended for owners and operators of local farms, food businesses, and local food systems organizations in Washington State. Listings are currently Free.

Washington State University Regional Small Farms Program provides research-based information and educational programs for farmers, consumers, decision-makers, and others involved in local food systems.
Since 2015, the Food & Farms team across Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap Counties work closely with farmers and community members to build a profitable farming system, to promote land and water stewardship, and to ensure that members of our community have access to healthy food.

Farms for a New Generation is national initiative that supports new and next generation farmers and ranchers to gain access to land, steward it well, and succeed in agriculture. Through trainings, partnerships, and research we engage farmers, ranchers, agricultural land holders, and the specialists that support them.

NABC provides business development resources to farmers and agriculture-related business in northwest Washington. We work collaboratively to evaluate innovative agricultural products or services in order to ensure successful implementation into the market place. NABC’s fee-based technical assistance provides farm clients with “hand’s-on” business plan review and development, preparation of capital and financing strategies and plans, value-added product development and marketing, project evaluations, and professional referrals.

Food & Farm Business Services, a part of Business Impact NW, offers comprehensive support for food and farm entrepreneurs across Oregon & Washington State. We provide access to essential skills, resources, networks, and marketplace opportunities to help you start, run, and grow your food or farm-related business.

Comprehensive resource pages on different models of collaborative farming. Browse through the Library chapters to find guidebooks, case studies, podcasts, professional resources, and more on each model of collaborative farming.

The Regional Small Farms Program supports small to mid-sized farms in Clallam, Jefferson, and Kitsap Counties by leveraging the broad resources of Washington State University to resolve issues and create a positive food future for our region.