Stevie Schafenacker
Farm and Food Business Coach
Funding Partners and Collaborators
Over the past nine years, I’ve had the privilege of partnering with the organizations below to offer coaching, workshops, and technical support. While this isn’t a complete list, these are the groups I’ve worked with most often.
Many of them offer programs that fund one-on-one coaching with outside consultants. Click the links to learn more about their services—and feel free to reach out to them directly to explore funding options for working together.
Provides technical assistance and access to resources for farms and food businesses in Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties, MA.
Provides farms and food entrepreneurs in New England and the Hudson Valley with financial coaching, technical assistance, loans, and business development support.
Nonprofit strengthening local farms and food businesses in the Berkshire‑Taconic region through financing and technical and business support.
State agency that supports farmers through grants, technical assistance, land protection, and regulatory programs. MDAR funds my work to develop business plans with farmers who have received awards from grant programs.
The NESFP at Tufts University provides aspiring and beginning farmers with training, hands-on experience at an incubator farm, and business planning support to help launch and grow successful farm enterprises.