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One example, Chattanooga 2.0 partners are working to ensure all children and youth are equipped with the resources and supports needed to reach their full potential, cradle to career, through collaboration, measurement, and alignment of policy and practice. In 2018, Hamilton County Schools launched the Future Ready Institutes offering a unique career-themed education through a small learning community model that are aligned with workforce development needs. As one Intercity participant noted, “They appear to have worked through ‘turf wars’ that make efforts more difficult and complicated.” Again and again, we saw the strength of public-private partnerships on display. Intercity Visits are also great opportunities to build connections among the delegation.įrom addressing long-term community issues to responding to immediate needs, collaboration is expected in Chattanooga.
Intercity Visits take a delegation from Asheville to another community to gather ideas and best practices as we explore key issues in our own community. Our recent Intercity Visit to Chattanooga reinforced that idea.
We also thank our Advisory Team who helped shape the research and distill the findings of this project, and for the generous support of the Claneil Foundation, the John Merck Fund, and our supporters.38 business and community leaders from across Buncombe + 68 hours in Chattanooga + 6 presentations from a dozen Chattanoogans = Valuable relationships and ideasĪt the Asheville Chamber, we say together, we are more. We thank the 67 farmers who shared their stories and perspectives with us. Project findings are available in these state profiles. Working with the Census of Agriculture data, we held focus groups across New England of older farmers with no identified successors to learn more about this large, influential farmer subset: what they’re farming and with whom their vision of retirement and what challenges they face for the future. “How and to whom this land and farm infrastructure transfers will have an enormous impact on the future of farming in New England.” It was a real wake-up call to see how few farmers age 65+ have a next generation working on the farm with them,” said Cris Coffin, Policy Director of Land For Good, who directed the study. Farmers age 65 and older own or manage nearly one-third of New England’s farms, and most are farming without a young farmer alongside them. This new research from American Farmland Trust and Land For Good sheds light on what these trends mean for the future of New England agriculture. The Gaining Insights, Gaining Access project (2014-16) looks at characteristics of New England’s farm population at both ends of the spectrum-those at or beyond retirement age, and those young or new to farming. What will be needed to keep farmland in farming and farmers on the land as growing numbers of senior farmers begin to exit farming? You are here: Home › Our Work › Projects › Gaining Insights Gaining Insights
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