<span fr-original-style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Your donation will support three main areas of our collective work: cooperative land stewardship, organizational wellness, and farmer-to-farmer education including the Bay Area Farmer-to-Farmer Training, a hybrid on-farm and online course focused on training the next generation of agroecological land stewards. <span fr-original-style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Outlined below is more information on how your support for this campaign will assist in enhancing each programmatic area. <span fr-original-style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Thank you for helping us equip the next generation of farmers and land stewards, while actively dismantling the structural inequalities and environmental challenges that confront our food system. <strong style="border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Community Education:<span fr-original-style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Agroecology Commons facilitates farmer-to-farmer educational programs including skillshares, BAFFT (Bay Area Farmer-to-Farmer Training), and Farmer Mobilization which builds on BAFFT to provide opportunities in hands on learning including our apprenticeship program, seed grants, and the cooperative incubator farm. Our programs serve predominantly queer, Black, Indigenous, people of color (QBIPOC) and gender marginalized beginning farmers through various learning modalities, and connects them to a network of agroecological farmers, practitioners, and educators. We facilitate opportunities for the next generation of farmers in both technical and social components of agroecology; course topics range from: soil fertility, queer ecologies, land-based global social movements, seed stewardship, crop cultivation, tractor safety, and more. <strong style="border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Cooperative Land Stewardship:<span fr-original-style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Agroecology Commons is preparing to launch the 3-acre Cooperative Incubator Farm in El Sobrante, CA! This farm will provide land access for BAFFT participants to experiment, learn, and practice land stewardship with support from experienced mentors. As you may predict, starting a farm takes a lot of resources and materials! We have installed fencing, irrigation, a tool shed, toilet, and wash station. Your support will help us to continue providing the necessary infrastructure to ensure a supportive start to a thriving farm, including cover crop seed, seeds, starts, compost, and water.  We are continuing to add tools to the Food Sovereignty Lending Library. The library will reduce economic barriers and initial capital investment for small farmers, while encouraging access to key infrastructure and tools like, seeds, a commercial dehydrator, honey spinner, broad forks, grain mill, seeder, value added processing equipment, walk behind tractor, post pounders, pole pruners, and much more. <div style="border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Organizational Wellness:</div><div style="border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Investing in a culture of wellness for members of Agroecology Commons is vital to the integrity and longevity of the work we do. We are building organizational resilience through collaboratively designed structures that encourage individual wellness, as well as practices for our collective that align with our values of reciprocity, cooperation, reflection, healing, solidarity, and reverence for the Earth. It is often difficult to secure funding for these types of organizational wellness; through the potency of community crowdfunding, you will help us raise funds towards comprehensive benefits for our staff, retirement plans, ongoing educational trainings, the development of a 5-year strategic plan, and a reparations fund to support collective members who have faced various forms of systemic oppression.</div> <span fr-original-style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Thank you for your support! Sharing food, farming, and land connection is a way to practice collective healing; we can literally plant the values, principles, and approaches that we wish to see in our world, while transforming our food system, and by extension, our larger society!

Hello <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " fr-original-style style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">First name <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{lastname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " fr-original-style style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">Last name, Thank you for your support! Sharing food, farming, and land connection is a way to practice collective healing; we can literally plant the values, principles, and approaches that we wish to see in our world, while transforming our food system, and by extension, our larger society! Agroecology Commons <a href="https://www.agroecologycommons.org/">https://www.agroecologycommons.org/</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/agroecologycommons/">@agroecologycommons</a>

Thank you for fundraising with us this year again! Here is more information.

Your donation will support three main areas of our collective work: cooperative land stewardship, organizational wellness, and farmer-to-farmer education including the Bay Area Farmer-to-Farmer Training, a hybrid on-farm and online course focused on training the next generation of agroecological land stewards. Outlined below is more information on how your support for this campaign will assist in enhancing each programmatic area. Thank you for helping us equip the next generation of farmers and land stewards, while actively dismantling the structural inequalities and environmental challenges that confront our food system. Community Education:Agroecology Commons facilitates farmer-to-farmer educational programs including skillshares, BAFFT (Bay Area Farmer-to-Farmer Training), and Farmer Mobilization which builds on BAFFT to provide opportunities in hands on learning including our apprenticeship program, seed grants, and the cooperative incubator farm. Our programs serve predominantly queer, Black, Indigenous, people of color (QBIPOC) and gender marginalized beginning farmers through various learning modalities, and connects them to a network of agroecological farmers, practitioners, and educators. We facilitate opportunities for the next generation of farmers in both technical and social components of agroecology; course topics range from: soil fertility, queer ecologies, land-based global social movements, seed stewardship, crop cultivation, tractor safety, and more. Cooperative Land Stewardship:Agroecology Commons is preparing to launch the 3-acre Cooperative Incubator Farm in El Sobrante, CA! This farm will provide land access for BAFFT participants to experiment, learn, and practice land stewardship with support from experienced mentors. As you may predict, starting a farm takes a lot of resources and materials! We have installed fencing, irrigation, a tool shed, toilet, and wash station. Your support will help us to continue providing the necessary infrastructure to ensure a supportive start to a thriving farm, including cover crop seed, seeds, starts, compost, and water.  We are continuing to add tools to the Food Sovereignty Lending Library. The library will reduce economic barriers and initial capital investment for small farmers, while encouraging access to key infrastructure and tools like, seeds, a commercial dehydrator, honey spinner, broad forks, grain mill, seeder, value added processing equipment, walk behind tractor, post pounders, pole pruners, and much more. <div>Organizational Wellness:</div><div>Investing in a culture of wellness for members of Agroecology Commons is vital to the integrity and longevity of the work we do. We are building organizational resilience through collaboratively designed structures that encourage individual wellness, as well as practices for our collective that align with our values of reciprocity, cooperation, reflection, healing, solidarity, and reverence for the Earth. It is often difficult to secure funding for these types of organizational wellness; through the potency of community crowdfunding, you will help us raise funds towards comprehensive benefits for our staff, retirement plans, ongoing educational trainings, the development of a 5-year strategic plan, and a reparations fund to support collective members who have faced various forms of systemic oppression.</div> Thank you for your support! Sharing food, farming, and land connection is a way to practice collective healing; we can literally plant the values, principles, and approaches that we wish to see in our world, while transforming our food system, and by extension, our larger society!

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   - **Mission**: Agroecology Commons is dedicated to fostering agroecological education and practices, particularly for marginalized communities, including queer, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (QBIPOC). Their mission emphasizes cooperative land stewardship, organizational wellness, and farmer-to-farmer education, aiming to dismantle structural inequalities and environmental challenges within the food system.
   - **Cause**: The organization seeks to empower the next generation of agroecological land stewards through education and community support, promoting sustainable farming practices and social equity.

2. **Type of Activities**:
   - **Educational Programs**: They conduct farmer-to-farmer educational programs, including skillshares and the Bay Area Farmer-to-Farmer Training (BAFFT), which combines on-farm and online learning.
   - **Cooperative Land Stewardship**: Launching a 3-acre Cooperative Incubator Farm to provide land access for training and experimentation in sustainable farming.
   - **Community Support**: Offering resources like a Food Sovereignty Lending Library to reduce economic barriers for small farmers.
   - **Organizational Wellness Initiatives**: Focusing on the well-being of their members through community-driven wellness programs and funding for comprehensive benefits.

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   - **Founding Information**: Specific founding details are not provided on the website.
   - **Scale**: The organization is community-focused, with a specific emphasis on serving marginalized groups in the Bay Area.
   - **Impact Metrics**: While specific metrics are not detailed, the organization highlights the importance of their educational programs and community initiatives in fostering sustainable farming practices.
   - **Volunteer Information**: Information about volunteering is not explicitly mentioned on the website, but the community-driven nature of their programs suggests opportunities for involvement.

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