Central Texas Young Farmers Coalition

02/08/2023

Hey Hello Howdy! Join us and RSVP your spot for our General Meeting at Green Gate Farms on Saturday, February 25 from 2-4 pm. This is an open and free community event where we'll provide updates on what CTYFC been up to, announce future workshops, and provide federal and local action alerts. We'll also give attendees time to reflect and share what is going on in their community or farm operation and asking you (yes YOU) for your stories.

Have questions or interest in speaking at this event? Send us an email with your concern and vision. We welcome farm and food advocacy organizations to share their thoughts and updates with us.

Join CTYFC for our first community General Meeting. All beginning, experienced, and aspiring farmers and food practitioners are welcome.

10/05/2022

TONIGHT! Get money for your operation or farm! Join us for a free info session at 6pm. There is a multitude of grant and loan opportunities for small business owners, but farmers have access to ag-specific programs you should know about! Hear from Shakera Raygoza of Terra Preta Farm and Katie Tritsch of the Small Producers Initiative about grant programs to keep an eye on and top considerations for writing a grant proposal.

Are you looking to start or expand your farm operation? There are a multitude of grant and loan opportunities for small business owners, but farmers have access to ag-specific programs you should know about! Hear from Shakera Raygoza of Terra Preta Farm and the National Young Farmers Coalition on ho...

08/25/2022

Hey hey y'all, September is just around the corner! Next month our social will be on Friday, September 9th to give everyone some wiggle room for labor day weekend. As always, you can BYOB and BYO(S)nacks but we'll also have drinks, snacks, and some more crafts! Looking forward to seeing y'all then!!

Also sign up for the Eventbrite if you need an extra reminder 💃

08/02/2022

Calling for all the unused stuff lying around in your house! To make our events a better experience for our guests, we have a small list of things that could help greatly. Do you have some easily transportable equipment lying around in your garage that you haven't used in a while? Maybe an extra cooler? Some fold-out chairs that haven't seen a butt in a few years? Let us take em' off your hands! We'll even arrange to pick it up from you. Here's what we need:

✅Any sized cooler: ideally big enough for ice and drink storage
✅Fold out plastic tables
✅Fold out chairs
✅Single DeWalt battery - any size - and charger (for our speaker)
✅Unused plastic cutlery, plates, or drinkware
✅ Table covers

If you have something you'd kindly like to donate, email us with the subject "equipment donation" or send us a DM!

07/27/2022

Got stuff? Consider donating gently-used items to CTYFC!

Calling for all the unused stuff lying around in your house! To make our events a better experience for our guests, we have a small list of things that could help significantly. Do you have some easily transportable equipment lying around in your garage that you haven't used in a while? Maybe an extra cooler? Some fold-out chairs that haven't seen a butt in a few years? Let us take em' off your hands! We'll even arrange to pick it up from you. Here's what we need:

Any sized cooler: ideally big enough for ice and drink storage
Fold out plastic tables
Fold out chairs
Single DeWalt battery - any size - and charger (for our speaker)
Unused plastic cutlery, plates, or drinkware

If you have something you'd kindly like to donate, email us at [email protected] with the subject "equipment donation" or send us a DM on our Instagram! ()

05/30/2022

Join us for our monthly socials, now every *First Friday of the Month* at .gardenatx 💜
Well have some kind of DIY craft activity each time and get to mingle with farmers and local food lovers.
We’ll have some snacks, but byob and byos(nacks) too if you’d like!

03/22/2022

Hey young farmers! 🌞 It’s Spring, and we’re excited to get together over some food and drinks to mingle and pet some goats!
Join us at Jester King Brewery this Friday, March 25 from 4:30-7:30pm. We’ll be ordering some pies 🍕 and visiting their goat pen 🐐 See you then!

02/24/2022

That’s right we have five new members this year! Welcome Anamaria! We are thrilled to have her presence, patience, and passion on our leadership this year. Read more about Anamaria and her work below

🌻Pronouns: she/her/ella
🌻Favorite farm tool: broadfork
🌻Where I work:
“I am the Garden Manager at Este Garden .gardenatx. I love sharing community at the dinner table, spending time outdoors, practicing joyous movement and meeting new people!”
🌻Why CTYFC?
“I want to help good things grow! In order to create more equitable, nurturing and collaborative systems around food, we as growers need spaces to connect, learn, share ideas and build support. Im excited to continue growing and strengthening our CTYFC community.”

02/22/2022

Hey y’all! We want to introduce you to the newest leadership member for CTYFC, Katie! Katie has been widely involved with small producers and farmers around Texas and we’re lucky to have her on team. Read more about her below!
🌱Pronouns: She/her
🌱Work: Small Producers Initiative at TXST
🌱Fave farm tool? Broadfork
🌱Why CTYFC? “As both a prior and aspiring farmer, and now someone who works with farmers as my job, I want to help bring useful programming (and hopefully, funding!) to young & beginning farmers in Central TX. I am excited about the prospect of doing more advocacy work in partnership with the national branch, and to help figure out what our community truly needs to be successful and to build a more equitable, resilient food system together.”

02/01/2022

Hey central Texas farmers! We know the weather is looking frightful this week and everyone is covering up for Thursday. If you need some last minute help or supply needs, please DM us so we can share out and connect you to get support!