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This episode highlights how a nonprofit-led co‑farm in Georgia is expanding land access for BIPOC and immigrant growers through shared infrastructure, coordinated stewardship, and long‑term land protection. It focuses on: (1) Global Growers Network’s partnership with the Conservation Fund’s Working Farms Fund, including a lease‑to‑purchase arrangement that enabled the nonprofit to acquire 22 acres now permanently protected under a conservation easement; (2) the co‑farm’s shared‑land model, where 13 farmers operate nine independent businesses using common infrastructure, equipment, and water systems at below‑market rates; (3) the role of GGN staff in stewarding the land, onboarding farmers, coordinating complex plot layouts, and providing technical assistance, while anchor farmers offer peer mentorship; (4) the governance structure built around a ...