This episode explores how a New Jersey-based nonprofit provides experienced farmers long-term access to land through affordable leases. It focuses on (1) how farmers are matched to the program and how land is allocated through an application process, (2) SAgE's efforts to learn how it can support its farmers beyond land access, (3) how the organization is financed, what the farmers pay and have available to them, and what aspects of individual and shared land are the responsibility of farmers and SAgE (4) how the organization has iterated on managing its own relationships with farmers and relationships between farmers in the hopes of developing more shared governance, and (5) challenges related to infrastructure, having multiple sites, and what infrastructure an organization like SAgE would hope to provide to its farmers

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