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Farmer Startups?! How Incubators Are Helping Small, Sustainable Farms Take Off

How Incubators Are Helping Farmer Startups (Yes, That's A Thing!)
Jessica Prois
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Asian Voices Executive Editor, HuffPost

In this photo taken on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012 in Salinas, Calif., Omar Chombo carries a bunch of chard across the field which he leases from the Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association, known as ALBA. The organization helps farmworkers, most of whom are first generation Latinos, to become independent organic farm operators. Since the program started in 2001, it has created more than 80 small farm businesses. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)
In this photo taken on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012 in Salinas, Calif., Omar Chombo carries a bunch of chard across the field which he leases from the Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association, known as ALBA. The organization helps farmworkers, most of whom are first generation Latinos, to become independent organic farm operators. Since the program started in 2001, it has created more than 80 small farm businesses. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)

Training farms known as incubators are helping immigrants and others get into farming. But Congressional wrangling over the Farm Bill has put their future in question.

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