The New Farmer Development Project was created to unite experienced farmers with underused land.
Sainsbury's has invested £30 million in "farmer development groups" since 2006, generating a saving to farmers of over £10 million.
The act would also support research and planning for the future of farming through grant funding under a beginning new-farmer development program.
A few of the programs, including Youth Markets, new farmer development, Health Bucks (with the food stamp program) and other interagency cooperative efforts, demonstrate steady advancement in providing farm fresh food to urban New Yorkers while supporting educational goals and food system development.
Under Programme 2.1.4 Agricultural Support Systems, AGS will provide policy advice for design of small farmer development programmes, and for improving rural women and men's access to resources.
The auction and events will raise money for a new farmer-development project for GrowNYC, which supports the Greenmarket program, and for the Sylvia Center at Katchkie Farm, which works with children.
A Benefit for Farmers A cocktail party sponsored by the Greenmarkets to benefit the new farmer-development project for immigrant farmers who suffered damage from Tropical Storm Irene will be held on Monday from 6 to 9 p.m. at Sueños, 311 West 17th Street, with Mexican dishes by chefs using ingredients raised by the farmers, as well as drinks; $80.12: nfdp.eventbrite.com.com
All that remains of Mr. McGreevey's legislative agenda are a noncontroversial proposal to help farmers sell development rights, giving the developer who pays for them a bigger project somewhere else, and possibly one allowing towns to charge developers additional fees.
He also pledged to take up the issue of land seized from farmers for development.
THIRTY years ago, Suffolk County started paying farmers for development rights to their farmland, allowing them to own and operate their farms instead of selling out to developers.
