The American Farm Initiative™
Cultivate Farmers.
Grow Markets.
Build Local Food Systems That Work.
AFI helps communities build networks of successful small farmers and connects them with the buyers, partners, and infrastructure needed to create a reliable local food economy.
Field-tested through AFI's work in Ohio.
The Case for AFI
The Missing Piece is Coordination.
Many communities already have people who want to farm, available land, organizations working on food access, institutions that want to buy locally, and people willing to invest.
What is often missing is a system that connects them.
AFI develops farmers and markets together—coordinating production, buyers, aggregation, and community partners so small farms can become part of a durable local food economy.
How It Works
The AFI Model
Build Farmers and Markets Together.
Develop Farmers
Train and support growers to build viable small farm businesses.
Coordinate Production
Help independent microfarms plan, grow, and combine supply around real market demand.
Build Markets
Connect growers with schools, institutions, food organizations, and other reliable buyers.
Small farms remain independent and locally rooted.
AFI helps them achieve more together.
Building a Track Record
Built in Ohio, Designed to Travel.
From Research to Results.
AFI grew from years of research and hands-on implementation in Ohio. That experience shaped a practical model communities can adapt to their own growers, markets, institutions, and resources.
See AFI Results