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Engaging Diverse Farmers

Facilitating Conversation With Diverse Groups

This guide is meant to provide an instructional guide on best practices for addressing interpersonal and intrapersonal dynamics on farms as a way to build healthy work cultures, team ethics and greater operational efficiency. It is meant to be a resource for anyone that is working towards whole farm systems that include social, cultural, emotional and mental dynamics that address the people process of farming.

Curriculum

Engaging Diverse Farmers Module

D-Town Farm Leading with Values

Facilitate the development of an analysis of and strategies to resist white supremacy in agricultural spaces and effectively focus on people process of farming.

Facilitator Guide:

Participant Handouts:

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/

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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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