In honor of Charles O. Prejean, our founding Executive Director, the Federation offices will be closed Tues, Aug 26, as we #celebrate his life & #legacy. We pause with gratitude for his vision & leadership.
Read John Zippert's Tribute to Charles: https://t.co/hfXOhDBNKL #fsclaf
🚜 Meet our newest fleet addition at the Federation’s 1,100-acre Rural Training & Research Center in Epes, AL — a side-by-side utility vehicle! It’ll help us navigate forestry demo sites, support prescribed burns, and transport members, staff, & gear across the land. #FSCALAF
🌱Register >>>https://t.co/hYmL8XrHHP & attend our 42nd #Georgia Farmers Conference this coming Friday! Join us in Albany for a day of educational workshops on #cooperative development, land retention, #forestry management & more. #fsclaf
Join the Federation for virtual training on cooperative development next Wednesday at 6:30 PM EST🌟 Gain insights into board roles, responsibilities, and effective #governance practices.
Register now: https://t.co/i7rMImrKzm
📢 Let’s strengthen #cooperatives across the South!
We have many opportunities to start over. Each new day is an opportunity to start over, but there’s nothing like a whole year to start over. New Year’s provides that opportunity. Let's join hands, hearts & spirits to start over this new year. Have a great start over & great year!
#happynewyear🌱 Cheers to a prosperous & abundant 2025! from all of us at the Federation!✨
Here's to a year of:
🌾 Holding on to your land with a clear title
💰 Earning a profit while farming
🌿 Eating healthy food
💚 Building self-supporting cooperative communities
#fsclaf
It’s the 3rd and final day of Forward2025, the FSC/LAF’s 6th Annual Heirs Property Boot Camp.
Land Retention Attorney, Lytanya Brown, discusses the benefits of Mediation as a strategy to help resolve family conflicts.
#fsclaf#mediation#conflict#land#heirsproperty#heirs
🌾 $500 mini-grants are available to Florida farmers impacted by natural disaster (s).
Apply>>https://t.co/c03Upn3KcJ
Questions: contact 1-888-508-3310 #blackfarmers#disasterrelief#hurricane#Florida
Think co-ops are some kind of niche approach ? Think again. One in three people are members of co-ops in the U.S. These businesses do it all and are big and small. Thank you @natlcoopbank for compiling the Co-op 100 again this year to show us the scale of co-ops @NCBACLUSA
In celebration of National Coop Month, we hosted our 12th Annual CoopEcon in #Alabama, which brought together over 100 #cooperative-members from around the South. We will work with attendees over the next 12 months to ensure their coops grow with solid business plans.
Alabama farmers, join us!
What: Alabama DFAP Benefits Webinar
Date: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
Time: Noon EST
Register: https://t.co/mEEkBplzkE
If you live in #Alabama and received a (DFAP) payment, you need to know how to report it properly. #fsclaf
📢Join us in welcoming Stephanie D. Banks, our new Director of Land Retention & Advocacy! Banks will support our #membership on #landretention issues, such as heirs’ property, and continue to develop and promote our #advocacy agenda.
Read press release >>https://t.co/b896SVvBCW
📭The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/LAF commends #USDA for sending historic #DFAP payments to producers discriminated against in the farm loan process before January 2021.
Read more >> https://t.co/xKwuFDlyW2
#FSA#22007apply#FSCLAF#BlackFarmers#FinancialAssistance