The Small Farm Institute Program

The Small Farm Institute is a program of the Maryland Cooperative Extension serving small-scale family-owned and or managed farm producers. The crops program seeks to improve the profitability and enhance the viability of small farm operators. The Small Farm Institute provides production systems, farm management, marketing, and outreach educational programs to small farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs.

Our audience is diverse in culture and farming operations. Beside traditional small agricultural producers, we serve small farmers not reached by traditional extension programs, including beginning farmers, new immigrant farmers, limited-resource farmers, minority farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs.

The Small Farm Institute develops alternative enterprises and establishes new market outlets and strategies for small farmers by stimulating research and extension educational programs. We partner with several departments across College Park and Eastern Shore campuses as well as agencies and non-government organizations nationally and internationally.

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Last updated: 04/3/2006