Donate to FARMpreneurs
Your support of our programs allows us to keep this program free for our farmer participants, expand the depth of our regional offerings, and train future farmer facilitators to lead our programming.
FARMpreneurs Strategic Sprint
This week-long residential course is designed for farmers committed to climate-smart practices. We know that this approach, building resilience in small and medium-sized farming businesses, not only makes better business sense and increases investability but also strengthens the health and fabric of our communities.
Strategic Sprints in 2025
January 5-10th
(COMPLETED)
Northern California
Bishop’s Ranch
January 19-25th
(COMPLETED)
Washington
Carnation Farms
December TBD
New York
Stone Barns Center
What Farmers Are Saying
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“This program came at such a perfect time for our farm. It helped me build out a strategy for our events program as we build out an education site to connect deeper with our community."
Samantha Gregory, Little Saint Farm
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"My experience during this strategic sprint has left me deeply inspired and empowered. I'm excited to bring what I learned back to my community. This year is going to be pivotal for us."
Nelson Hawkins, We Grow Farms
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“I've gained a lot of clarity during this week, especially learning alongside other likeminded farmers. It's helped me develop a solid plan for the next 1-2 years on my farm."
Amanda Janney, KM Mushrooms
Your Investment…
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Empowers Farmers
Provides essential entrepreneurial resources, tools, mentorship, and time to attending farmers.
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Strengthens Community
Enhances local food systems, ensures food security, and creates land-based employment opportunities.
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Promotes Sustainability
Supports climate-smart farming practices that contribute to planetary cooling, healthy ecosystems, and sustainable agriculture.
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Grows Business Skills
Equips farmers with advanced business and entrepreneurial strategies for long-term success.
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Initiates Mentorship
Connects farmers with experienced mentors who provide personalized guidance to help them achieve their goals.
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Connects Resources
Offering farmers the toolsets, skillsets, and mindsets to increase their investability and ability to take advantage of opportunities.
Medium to small farmers play a critical role in nutrient-dense food production, regional food security, community health, and planetary cooling, and your sponsorship is a direct investment in climate action.
Your Investment Provides Farmers With…
● 7 days of lodging and food at leading regenerative farms
● Time away from the farm in a community of peers to focus deeply on next steps
● Top caliber business school education, exploring core principles of mission-driven entrepreneurial leadership and impact communication
● Opportunity to learn from and collaborate with experts such as Will Rosenzweig from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Anna Knight of Old Grove Farm, Kathleen Merrigan of Arizona State University, Emma Jagoz of Moon Valley Farms, and Jesse Smith of White Buffalo Land Trust.
● On-going peer platform engagement and asynchronous learning
How Sponsorships Will Be Utilized
$10,000
Allows farmers to participate in the strategic sprint and year-long mentorship program.
$20,000
Allows us to invest in regional programming and infrastructure.
$40,000
Enables us to host a Babson College-affiliated farmer facilitator training program.
$75,000
Allows us to build seed funding for land acquisition to transition Sonoma County mono-crop to regional, regenerative food production.
Our Recent Accomplishments
We are pleased to report receiving a multi-year grant from Waverley Street Foundation. This ensures the operational expenses are covered, alongside maintaining our core team, so we can focus on raising catalytic funding and expanding this program nationwide.
We raised over $70,000 in local sponsorships for attending farmers for these January cohorts.
For these two January cohorts, we received 3 times more applications than we had space. The applications were full of brilliant climate-smart farmers from around the country and even a few international ones. Farmers genuinely understand the impact that this program can have on their lives and the food system.
And seeing these farmers complete this week’s strategic sprint, we have no doubt that this program will continue to transform food systems nationwide.
Checks made payable to Ideagarden Institute for the FARMpreneurs Program
Ideagarden Institute, Inc.
A federally approved 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
PO Box 733
Healdsburg, CA 95448
Tax ID: 86-2425643
Photos From The Strategic Sprint
