Resources

Forest Owners/Forestry

Southern Regional Extension Forestry

Master Tree Farmer I: http://www.sref.info/regional-programs/master-tree-farmer-i

Farmers' Market

• ASAP Materials
  • ASAP has brought together 38 great articles covering almost all aspects of Farmers' Markets. It can be found on their website, click here.
• Marketing Resources
  • List your vendor website on Local Harvest
  • Review ATTRA's document Farmers' Market Marketing and Business Guide
• Food Safety
  • The Organic Growers School has a link to an article Food Safety from farm to Fork
• Vendor Safety & Insurance
  • The Farmers' Market Coalition has many great resources regarding insurance.

Farmers

• Grants & Funding
• Shadefund helps green entrepreneurs who work with sustainable forestry and forest products, small farms, eco-tourism, natural food and medicines, and small-scale renewable energy production with loans ranging from $5,000 to $50,000. See their website at www.shadefund.org for more information.
• Beggining Farmers
  There are two amazing sites that bring together alot of information for new farmers: the first is BegginingFarmers.org and the second is the USDA website.
• Hiring Workers/Interns
  • Taxes
    • Agricultural Employer Tax Guide, IRS Circular A
    • IRS Circular E
    • Farmer's Tax Guide, Publication 225 (2010)
  • Forms & Documents
    • I-9 Form
    • W4 Withholding Form
    • NC New Hire Form
    • OSHA Injury Reporting Forms
    • Migrant Farm Worker Recordkeeping
  • Notices and Posters
    • NC Labor Posters (includes Federal posters)
    • Migrant Farm Worker Posters

Bees & Other Pollinators

• Pollinator Partnership
  • http://www.pollinator.org/index.html
    
• Ultraviolet flowers
  • http://www.naturfotograf.com/UV_flowers_list.html#ASTERACX
• Planting guides
  • http://www.pollinator.org/guides.htm
• national honey board- click the honey locator for varietal honey sources
  • http://www.honey.com/
• USDA website on pollinators
  • http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/index.shtml
• Beekeeping supplies and magazine
  • http://www.dadant.com/
• Xerces society- dedicated to conservation of invertebrates including pollinators
  • http://www.xerces.org/