Farm Business Coaching
With over a decade of experience growing organic diversified produce, dozens of collaborative grant projects completed, and sustainable food system relationships across the Midwest, I offer my expertise to help farmers take the next best steps towards achieving resilience.
Together, we can…
plan a new farm enterprise
refine operational, financial, or relational challenges
explore grant, conservation, and certification opportunities
stay accountible to strategic goals
…grow faster and more mindfully than working alone.
How Coaching Works
Break Ground with a complimentary 30 minute intake session where we get to know one another.
Sign a Client Agreement where you choose the sliding scale fee that works for you.
Book Harvest Sessions, one hour coaching meetings, at your location (within I-270 in Columbus Ohio) or via virtual meeting software.
Receive meeting notes with defined next steps, and encouragement, via email between sessions.
Begin Today
Complete this short form and I will respond to schedule your free initial conversation.
My Qualifications
7 years organic market garden operator and year-round farmers marketing experience
Collaborator on sixteen sustainable agriculture grant projects from local, regional, and federal funders
Conference presenter, speaker, and workshop leader
Co-author, Doherty, F., Tayse, R., Kaiser, M., & Rao, S. (2023). “The farm has an insatiable appetite”: A food justice approach to understanding beginning farmer stress. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 12(3), 69–92.
North American Food Systems Network AgriCluster Resilience and Expansion (ACRE) Facilitator
American Farmland Trust Land Access Trainer
Frequently Asked Questions
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The history of agriculture in the United States is rife with inequity. To address this, my coaching fees range from $30 - $75 per hour. My hope is that clients with secure land access, generational wealth, and identity privilege choose the $75 per hour rate, allowing beginning and historically marginialized farmers to pay less.
I will invoice via email monthly and clients have 30 days to pay the invoice. -
Totally up to you!
For projects like exploring a new enterprise or planning a grant or certification proposal, we’ll probably need four to six sessions. For a whole farm plan, we may meet eight or more times. And some farmers will want to meet monthly indefinitely to stay on track.
We can talk at the Break Ground intake session about an estimated number of sessions, or your budget for a custom project. -
Ah, you want to know the nitty gritty before stepping into anything? Me too.
The client agreement is a plain language memorandum of understanding that defines the fee for service structure, ensures that your confidential information is protected, and describes the Independent Contractor relationship.
Here’s an example.