Guiding Resilience: A Legal Workshop for Ag Service Providers, Spring 2026

Guiding Resilience empowers agricultural service providers to guide farmers and ranchers towards resolutions for their legal vulnerabilities.

This session of Guiding Resilience will meet:

April 14, 2026 12:00 pm CDT

April 21, 2026 12:00 pm CDT

April 28, 2026 12:00 pm CDT

May 5, 2026 12:00 pm CDT

May 12, 2026 12:00 pm CDT

As an agricultural service provider, farmers and ranchers likely come to you with legal questions, such as whether or not its legal to have interns or whether they should form an LLC, corporation, or neither. As a non-attorney, 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 producers. Guiding Resilience is a legal workshop designed just for you as an agricultural service provider, teaching the 10 best legal practices that you can share with producers without overstepping due bounds. You’ll walk away from this five-session, highly interactive, and facilitation-focused workshop ready to share your assets and wisdom to guide farmers and ranchers to legal solutions with confidence. Plus, you’ll have a group of fellow service providers to help keep you on track.

Join us in learning the 10 best practices of farm legal risk management over 5 weeks.

Session 1: Farm Law as Creative Power
Session 2: Organizing Farm Businesses for Legal Success
Session 3: Growing a Legally Resilient Workforce
Session 4: Accessing Farmland with Legal Confidence
Session 5: Diversifying Farm Enterprises Without Adding Legal Risk

Each week contains video learning, activities and reading selections. You’ll meet on Thursdays listed above with your instructor to learn more about the law and develop your practical skills.

Farm Commons Members can register with this link.

If you aren’t yet a Farm Commons member, consider joining to get access to our live courses and entire online library of farm law resources. Click here for more information about Farm Commons membership, including information about our BIPOC scholarships.

Mark your calendar for Tuesdays from 1pm – 3:00pm EST for our online meeting and make the most of this workshop!

Already a Member? Use this link to register for the course for FREE. Once your registration is approved, you will be sent information to give you access to the live sessions. Don’t have a membership? Join now and then use the registration link provided above!

Workshop Instructor

Chloe Johnson

Chloe Johnson is Farm Common’s Staff Attorney. Chloe’s work focuses on ensuring farmers and the agricultural community receive sharp legal analysis as she writes newsletters, books, guides, and supports curriculum development. Chloe farmed for many seasons, learning from Neil Taylor near her hometown in Ellenwood, GA, as well as on farms across North Carolina. Chloe earned her bachelor’s degree from New College of Florida and went on to study law at the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, GA. As an agricultural professional, Chloe has advised farmers through the Brannan Law Firm in Hillsborough, NC, on small business formation, zoning, and real estate issues. She owns land with four friends in Cedar Grove, NC, and is slowly turning that raw piece of land into a homesite and a place to grow her food and flowers.

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