Introducing the 2022-2024 Accelerator Cohort!  — The Dust

By Lydia Hsu 

Lydia Hsu is a Farmer Companies Coordinator at Georgia Organics.

The Farmer Companies workforce right here at Georgia Organics is worked up to formally introduce the farmers within the 2022-2024 Accelerator cohort!

The Georgia Organics Accelerator Program combines professional teaching with tailor-made on-farm investments to develop the vitality and resiliency of Georgia farms and enhance the standard of life for farmers.  

The seven farms chosen for the 2022-2024 cohort are all doing unbelievable work to develop their farm merchandise and companies, sustainably and organically. Every farm was chosen based mostly on their proposed utilization of this system, which incorporates figuring out three focus objectives and one in-hand useful resource that the farms work in direction of attaining and finishing by the tip of this system. 

The Farmer Companies workforce is working intently with every farm to develop their objectives and in-hand useful resource, and to assist them over the subsequent two years as they execute their Accelerator plan. We’ve a strong listing of coaches that might be working hand-in-hand with the farmers to supply technical help, steering, and coaching on an enormous array of matters that assist them with long-term farm enterprise planning. In-hand sources can appear like a Soil Fertility plan, a Meals Security plan, a Labor plan, a Transition plan, and extra!  

The coaches can even advise farmers on methods to maximize their Accelerator funding for his or her strategic capital investments. This funding could be utilized in direction of farm bills — together with on-farm infrastructure, labor, healthcare, and advertising.