Do legal questions keep you up at night? Do you wish you knew where to turn for the answers?
Those answers aren’t always easy to come by – especially for the most innovative, direct-to-consumer farmers…until now!
Discovering Resilience is a legal workshop series designed for you. This workshop empowers farmers and ranchers with the legal knowledge and skills they need to resolve legal vulnerability in 5 core areas of farm law:
- business structures,
- insurance,
- employment law,
- land leasing and purchasing,
- and diversification (value-adding and agritourism).
Are you wondering how to write an effective lease? Or whether or not to form an LLC, S corporation, or neither? What about hosting interns or working with volunteers; is that legal? Or how you should manage the risks of guests getting injured when 
they visit your operation? These are all farm law questions and they affect everyone, especially the most innovative, direct-to-consumer farmers. Answers aren’t always easy to come by, but that’s why the Discovering Resilience workshop exists.
This isn’t a boring, PowerPoint-driven impractical legal class. This is the most hands-on farm law workshop you’ll find. You’ll create your own farm law action plan, unique to your operation, with support from peers and legal experts along the way. Farmers and ranchers are the focus here. We believe strongly in the tenet of nothing about us without us.
This five week highly interactive and producer-focused workshop is framed around the 10 legal best practices every farmer and rancher need to take to build resilience. You will walk away from this workshop ready to implement your own 
legal action plan, as well as have continued support from peers in a virtual commons space where referrals, strategies, questions, tips, and more are shared!
Please review these instructions for signing up through the Farm Commons website.
Workshop Series Includes:
- The most important legal concepts for your farm/ranch
- Interactive, meaningful, and practical activities to overcome your legal challenges
- Learning effective communication tools
- Engaging weekly live meetings facilitated by legal experts
- A virtual commons space for peers to share referrals, strategies, questions, tips, and more
How It Works:
Meet once a week for a 120 minute live meeting led by Farm Commons’ staff focused on practicing legal resilience, peer engagement, and questions- Engage in guided discovery between weekly course meetings with videos and online content
- Ask questions and contribute answers in our agriculture-focused social platform, the Community Commons
Extra Benefits:
We’re thrilled to share our special offer with you for the Discovering Resilience workshop. For a limited time, The Land 
Connection community can become a Farm Commons member for the promotional rate of $49 (normally $99), and sign up to join our Discovering Resilience course for free (with membership)! Your one-year membership to Farm Commons will give you a seat at our workshop and full access to all Farm Commons guides, webinars, resource library, and more!
Space is limited, and seats will go fast. Please use the button below to sign up through the Farm Commons website.
Please review these instructions for signing up through the Farm Commons website.
Requirements:
- You are currently a farmer or rancher, or you have a strong business plan.
- Internet access able to sustain an online meeting with video.
- Availability at the scheduled workshop meeting times (see Schedule below)
Schedule:
All live sessions will occur 6:00pm – 8:00pm CDT.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Participants will be expected to complete readings, watch videos, and engage with additional online content independently between sessions. This will be a commitment of approximately 30 minutes between each session.
