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New free Montana program aims to help beginning farmers and ranchers
December 29, 2021/
It can be extremely difficult to start a career in agriculture unless you have access to generational knowledge, but help is on the way.
A local nonprofit has been awarded a $565,000 federal grant to help build capacity for training beginning farmers and ranchers.
The Missoula Community Food and Agriculture Coalition recently learned they were one of 140 organizations nationwide to get the money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Amberleigh Hammond at the Hayes Creek Homestead is a Missoula-area beekeeper and farmer who remembers being extremely frustrated when she was trying to buy a piece of land south of town.
