Resource List created by George Cheney
About Various Models of Shared Land Access
- Buy-Protect-Sell via a Land Trust or a Community Land Trust: e.g., Groundswell Conservancy, Madison, WI Groundswell Conservancy
- The Agrarian Commons (via The Agrarian Trust, OR): Agrarian Trust Initiatives Agrarian Commons
- Farmland Access: Farmland Access See legal toolkit and other resources
- Farmland Commons (by The Farmers Land Trust, TN) Farmland Commons
- Land Back to Tribal Jurisdiction and Administration: e.g., Dishgamu-Humboldt Community Land Trust, Eureka, CA Dishgamu-Humboldt Community Land Trust
- Land for Good, Keene, NH (helping w/ land access, tenure, and transfer): Land for Good Accessing Farmland Together (a decision-making tool for farmers): Land for Good Decision Toolkit
- Tufts U, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project: Colleen Hanley colleen.hanley@tufts.edu
- Worker Cooperative Farm: For example, Love is Love, Mansfield, GA Love is Love Farm
- Worker Cooperative and Employee Ownership Handbooks and Other Resources
- Co-op Cincy: Purchase a copy of the Worker-Owner Workbook and Co-op U Manual
- Democracy at Work Institute (DAWI): Search for Democratic Management Guide
- Ohio Employee Ownership Center: Purchase a copy of Business Succession Planning—an Owner’s Manual
- National Cooperative Business Association: See resources
- University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives: See resources at: University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives
- US Federation of Worker Cooperatives: See resources at US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
Colorado Cooperative Statutes:
https://medium.com/fifty-by-fifty/colorado-the-delaware-of-cooperative-law-babedc9e88eb
Perspectives on the Commons:
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Land in the US: Books for Background and Inspiration
Liz Carlisle, Healing Grounds. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2022.
Steven Conn, The Lies of the Land. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013.
Simon Winchester, Land. New York: HarperCollins, 2021.
