Provide technical support, mentorship, online resources, education, and networking opportunities for transitioning and organic farmers across the united states, including those from historically…

Provide technical support, mentorship, online resources, education, and networking opportunities for transitioning and organic farmers across the united states, including those from historically underserved community groups. Organic farmers association will be responsible for the administration of this cooperative agreement, collaborating with subawardees, developing resources and templates for the organic agriculture sector, and preparing documents for the national organic program�S publicly available organic integrity learning center. The overarching goal of this award is for the organic farmers association to provide national support to farmers and regional lead partners in the transition to organic partnership program. Deliverables will include communications and outreach plans detailing resources shared with farmers, reports including key findings and takeaways, quarterly progress reports, planning documents, and photo or video journalistic narratives. In addition to creating new technical documents and resources, the awardee will provide data on the number of farmers who receive services through this award. This work will benefit transitioning and organic farmers by creating and sharing resources that help address barriers to organic certification and by establishing new community building opportunities, a key factor in successful organic transition. OFA will collaborate with partner organizations, hereafter subawardees, to complete the scope of the work outlined in the agreement. Subawardees will include national organic coalition, ifoam north america, international organic inspectors association, organic farming research foundation, lola hampton frank pinder center for agroecology at florida a and M university, and national young farmers coalition. Other subawardees may be added to accomplish the goals of the agreement. The subawards will support the prime award by making use of previous experience of subawardee organizations to facilitate conversations with stakeholder groups, produce research-based technical assistance resources, utilize previous research, share resources and educational tools, assist in outreach and communication efforts, and work directly with farmers seeking organic certification.