In 2025, we cemented the informal collaboration that we had recently forged with the Persimmon Collective Fund in two ways: by entering into a partnership agreement to provide low-cost bridge loans to BIPOC farmers for land acquisition, and by jointly implementing a financing tool that can be used to keep land affordable and under the stewardship of BIPOC farmers through …
WATER’S EDGE FARMSTEAD is a seed farm in North Carolina that is the first recipient of a loan under a new partnership with the Persimmon Collective Fund in which we are jointly making low-cost bridge loans for land acquisition by BIPOC farmers.
Sustainability and stewardship are central values of Water’s Edge Farmstead, where they “recognize the increasing urgency of …
In 1996 a K’nyaw Karen family fled ethnic cleansing in Burma (Myanmar) for a refugee camp in Thailand, where they lived for nine years before resettling in North Carolina. Though separated from ancestral land, they held fast to their agricultural legacy and began farming at Transplanting Traditions Community Farm (TTCF), a nonprofit that supports food sovereignty in the refugee community …
The Black Family Land Trust (BFLT) is a conservation land trust working primarily in the Southeastern United States to help African American and other historically underserved landowners preserve and protect land assets, critical for enabling opportunity and economic security for Black families today and into the future. It is estimated that the number of acres of rural land owned by …
The Southeastern Connecticut Fund for Land Equity supports and promotes a sustainable, just, regional economy in Southeastern Connecticut. As a revolving community loan fund we help our neighbors invest in financially sustainable non-profit and for-profit organizations that meet the needs of our community, create new opportunities, and restore the land to health.
Priority for funds is given to projects involving …
In October 2011, our Pioneer Valley neighbor Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) established a zero-interest emergency loan fund in response to the damage suffered by farms in Western Massachusetts due to Hurricane Irene. Since then, the Emergency Farm Fund has made dozens of loan totaling nearly $500,000 to farms struggling to meet their immediate needs in the aftermath of …
Equity Trust is a participating lender in the PVGrows Investment Fund (PVGIF), a collaborative project bringing together agricultural non-profits, community lenders, government agencies, and local foundations to strengthen farm and local food businesses throughout the Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts. PVGIF provides financing and technical assistance to local farm and food businesses through community investments and offers an investment vehicle …
