The Farm Resilience Mentorship Program - or FaRM - is a program built by farmers, for farmers, to help you integrate beneficial management practices (BMPs) into your operation, like more efficient nitrogen management, advanced grazing management and cover cropping. FaRM offers free online resources, workshops, on-farm field days, mentorship and farmer networks. FaRM is also fully customizable to fit your learning style and schedule: there are options to join workshops online or in-person, or get one-on-one support from a farmer mentor.

FaRM is developed and delivered by regional farm organizations and Indigenous partners from across the country, with funding from Farmers for Climate Solutions, which is a coalition of 29 Canadian farm groups.

Nothing. FaRM is free for all farmers across Canada.

*Farmers will not be sold any products or services through FaRM.

Just follow this link to the FaRM learning hub. There, you’ll select your province or region and what BMP you want to learn about. Then you can choose how you would like to learn (see the next question).

Farmers are busy people, so you decide how you would like to learn. When you sign up for FaRM, you can choose any or all of the following options:

• Independent learning: Enroll in an online course to learn at your own pace. Read, watch videos and complete workbooks.

• Mentorship: Sign up for a workshop with a farmer mentor from your area to go over your planning and implementing questions. You can choose an online or in-person session.

• Networking: Join online discussion groups or on-farm field days to talk shop with farmers in your area who are interested in the same BMP as you are.

Our research has shown that Advanced Nitrogen management, Advanced Grazing Systems and Cover Cropping are some of the most effective, affordable and accessible solutions to help farmers increase our resilience in the face of our changing climate. These are also the same beneficial management practices (BMPs) that the government is targeting for the On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF), so we wanted to make sure that farmers have the knowledge they need to take advantage of that funding opportunity.

No. FaRM is developed and delivered by independent farm organizations across the country. We receive no money from the government. We are offering training in the same BMPs as the On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF), but we aren’t affiliated with them.

Right now, FaRM offers training in Advanced Nitrogen Management, Advanced Grazing Systems and Cover Cropping. We hope to offer training on other BMPs in the future.

No, you do not need to be a member of a farm organization to join FaRM.

Send us an email and let us know what province you’re in - we’re happy to help.