Discovering Resilience
Self-paced

Discovering Resilience: A Legal Workshop for Farmers and Ranchers, Self-paced

Discovering Resilience is a legal workshop that empowers farmers and ranchers with the legal knowledge and skills they need to resolve legal vulnerabilities.

Farmers and ranchers: Ever wonder if your farm is at risk because of a lurking legal problem? Do you wish you knew where to turn for the answers?

Those answers aren’t always easy to come by — especially for the most innovative, direct-to-consumer farmers. Discovering Resilience is a legal workshop designed just for you. This workshop empowers farmers and ranchers with the legal knowledge and skills you need to resolve legal vulnerabilities. You’ll walk away from this five-module, multi-media, and producer-focused workshop ready to implement your own legal action plan and find legal answers with confidence.

Discover the 10 legal best practices in 5 core areas of farm law

Including Business Structures, Insurance, Employment Law, Land Leasing and Purchasing, & Diversification (value-added and agritourism)

Answer key legal questions for your farm or ranch:

  • How do I write an effective lease?
  • Should I form an LLC, S corporation, or neither?
  • What about hosting interns or working with volunteers; is that legal?
  • How should I manage the risks of guests getting injured when they visit my operation?

The most hands-on farm law workshop you’ll find:

  • Create your own farm law action plan through interactive and practical exercises.
  • Build legal competence and confidence with guided discovery through videos, guides, and online content.
  • Share your questions, referrals, tips, strategies, and more on our agriculture-focused social platform: the Community Commons.
  • Gain skills in effective communication so you can be your own best advocate.

Requirements

  1. You are currently a farmer or rancher, or you have a strong business plan.
  2. You have internet access that is sufficient to run watch videos.
  3. You can commit to the 5-10 hours necessary to complete the course.
This workshop is FREE for our Producer Members. Not a member yet? Get access to this workshop, our extensive library of guides/model documents, and ask your questions on our Commons Community with a Producer Membership. Join us by clicking here! Right after you join, c'mon back to sign up.

Here is what past participants have to say about Discovering Resilience:

Yolimar Rivera Vázquez
“If you want to protect your business and learn about the creative power you hold to navigate the system, then you should take this class.”
Michelle Week
Good Rain Farm
"Take this workshop! You must, you need to! It'll help you address risk before you end up in a court room. I absolutely loved my time in the course and greatly appreciated the groups questions and the topics were so clearly discussed. Extremely helpful in clarifying risks and helping me better articulate how we manage our risk to consumers. Also helps us better articulate why we don't allow volunteers or other activities in customer service language."
Noa Kay
Songbird Haven Farm
"I felt like this workshop really met my current needs/challenges. I really liked the combination of pre-meeting videos/activities and live information sharing and group activities. The Action Plan workbook is great. There was also plenty of time for questions."

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