Discovering Resilience - Farm Legal Training Class

Discovering Resilience empowers farmers with the resources they need to resolve legal vulnerability in land use and leasing, employment, agro-tourism and value-added production, business structures, insurance, and liability.

Are your farmers asking how to write an effective, comprehensive lease? Are they wondering whether they should form an LLC, S corporation, or neither? What about hosting interns or working with volunteers; is that legal? How should a farm manage the risk that guests may get injured when they visit the operation? Farm law affects everyone, especially our most innovative, direct-to-consumer farmers. Answers aren’t always easy to come by- but that’s why Discovering Resilience exists.

This isn’t your typical boring, expert-focused legal education. Listen to farmers explain how they manage risk on their farm while legal experts emphasize the law’s specifics. 

It’s a fun, interactive workshop that gets farmers talking. Farmers walk away with an individualized to do list that reflects their needs and priorities. Nearly 90% of farmers plan to make changes to their operation- changes that reduce risk and leverage legal opportunity- as a result of this workshop. In today’s difficult farm climate, we need all the resilience we can get.

This class is hosted by Farm Commons in Partnership with Midwest Farmers of Color Collective

Class will be taught by Rachel Armstrong, Executive Director of Farm Commons and Farmer Co-Presenters are Valerie Djuissi & Thi Hoang.

Date:

Thursday, April 9th 2026

Location:

The History Center of Olmsted County

Classroom: The Sertoma Lecture Hall

1195 West Circle Drive SW

Rochester, MN 55902

Time: 

9am - 4:30pm

*Lunch will be provided for in class participants

*Participants are required to attend the entire class