Arapahoe
County Offices
5804 S Datura Blvd.
Littleton, CO 80120
303-730-1920
303-730-2764 (fax)
(map)
Hours
of Operation:
Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. MST
Closed holidays
Community
Resources Director
Don Klemme
Division
Manager
Dale Edwards
4-H
Program
Larry Hooker
Shaylen Florez
Jean Walton
Youth
Development Program
Kimberley Jones
Family
& Consumer Education
Sheila Gains
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
The
Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)
Karen Martinez
Horticulture & Natural Resources
Robert Cox
Mae Rauen
Agriculture
Dale
Edwards |
Agriculture
Small Farms
What is a small
farm?
The
USDA National Commission on Small Farms defines small farms as
"farms with less than $250,000 gross receipts annually on which
day-to-day labor and management are provided by the farmer and/or
farm family that owns the production or owns, or leases, the
productive assets...[these have an average] net cash income of only
$23,159...over 80% of a farmers gross sales are absorbed by farming
expenses." In
Arapahoe County, according to the 2002 Census of Agriculture, there
were 438 farms that met the definition of a small farm.
Sources
of Information:
USDA
USDA
National Commission on Small Farms Report, "A Time to Act"
USDA
Small Farms Program
Colorado
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Colorado Department of
Agriculture
CDA
Organic Certification Program
Land Grant Universities
UC
Davis Small Farms Center
CSU
Specialty Crops Program
Financing
Colorado
Agricultural Development Authority Beginning Farmer Program
Mountain
Plains Farm Credit Services - See AgVantage Program for Young,
Beginning, and Small Producers
Grant
Sources
USDA
Rural Development
Organic
Farming Research Foundation
CSU
Specialty Crops Program
Grants.gov
Publications
Small
Farmer's Journal
Small
Farm Today
Acres
USA |
Future Farmers of America
CSU
Fact Sheets
Small Farms
Small Acreage Management
AG Weeds
Production Agriculture
Marketing
Biotech
Water
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