Agrarian Trust

Petersburg, VA

Date Funded: July, 2022

Foodshed Capital joined Agrarian Trust and the Central Virginia Agrarian Commons, Virginia Cooperative Extension, the Catawba Sustainability Center at Virginia Tech, the Petersburg Healthy Opportunities Project, the Petersburg League of Urban Growers, and Sankofa Community Orchard to pool resources to purchase a 5.12-acre urban farm just outside Richmond, Virginia. The Commons model provides farmers with critical land security through a 99-year lease while ensuring the land can never be bought or sold again and will remain protected for regeneratively managed food production.