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Peer-To-Peer Learning & Mentorship

This series provides interactive learning opportunities and guidance for educators to connect new farmers with experienced mentors, supporting the formation of sustainable learning communities focused on agricultural livelihoods and land management.

Curriculum

Curriculum

Beginning Farmers Curricula  © 2025 by Michigan Beginner Farmer Curriculum Team is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Connecting New Farmers With Mentors

This series of interactive learning opportunities will help educators to pair new farmers with experienced farm mentors.

Participant Handouts:

Activity 1: Planning a Mentorship Project

Activity 2: Supporting Mentors

Activity 3: Supporting Mentees

Organizers Guide for Peer to Peer Learning Groups

This guide assumes that an organizer or group of organizers are planning to take on the task of helping a group form, begin meeting, and sustain meaningful gatherings for the sake of learning and sharing in the realities of agricultural livelihoods, ways of life and land management.

Participant Handouts:

Activity 4: On-Land Learning

Additional Resources
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This work is supported by the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program grant no. 2021-70033-35833 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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​Beginning Farmers Curricula © 2025 by Michigan Beginner Farmer Curriculum Team is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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