1. Building Capacity for Socially Disadvantaged Producers
Success Story for Burnell Farms with the help of NRCS
Tammy burnell
Burnell farms

2. What is the NRCS ?
NRCS works with farmers, ranchers and forest landowners across the county using sound science and research to help them make good conservation decisions on their land,.
Programs are voluntary and incentive based. Producers apply to participate in NRCS programs and they provide technical guidance and financial assistance they need to implement proven conservation practices on their land,.

3. NRCS has been around for more than 75 years
NRCS has been around for more than 75 years. They emerged out of the worst agricultural disaster in American history – the Dust Bowl.
For more than a century, producers and landowners exhausted America’s soil resources by using harmful and unsustainable farming practices, not knowing it would impact them down the road. In the early 1900s the USDA even said that soil was the one indestructible, immutable resource the nation had.

4. 70 percent of land in the continental U.S. is privately owned
FARMERS AND RANCHERS AT THE CENTER
America’s farmers, ranchers and forest landowners are at the center.
In the U.S., 70 percent of land in the lower 48 states is privately owned. That’s 1.4 billion acres. The fate of our environment and natural resources is not going to be decided on public lands, but by millions of farmers and ranchers making decisions every day. Those landowners choose how to use the natural resources on their lands.
America’s producers feed not only American families, but people around the world. When our growing population needs more food, more fuel and more fiber to survive, the world will turn to American producers to deliver. In the next 40 years alone, they’ll need to produce as much food as they have in the last 500 years.
In order to keep up with production, and do it in a way that protects our natural resources for the future, they will need support.

5. America’s farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners are at the center of conservation.
America’s producers feed not only American families, but people around the world. When our growing population needs more food, more fuel, and more fiber to survive, the world will turn to American producers to deliver. In the next 40 years alone, they’ll need to produce as much food as they have in the last 500 years.
In order to keep up with production, and do it in a way that protects our natural resources for the future, they will need support.

6. How NRCS Helped Burnell Farms
Through EQIP grants the NRCS has provided Burnell Farms with
High Tunnel
Micro Irrigation System
Composter
Well
Fencing
Which has allowed Burnell Farms to grow produce year round

7. High Tunnel

8. Micro-Irrigation

9. Pond & Pump

10. Sand Media Filter

11. Composting Facility

12. Livestock Water Well

13. Watering Facility & Heavy Use Area

14. Fencing

15. EQIP Program
The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary program that provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers through contracts up to a maximum term of ten years in length. These contracts provide financial assistance to help plan and implement conservation practices that address natural resource concerns and for opportunities to improve soil, water, plant, animal, air and related resources on agricultural land and non-industrial private forestland.

16. Who Can Apply? Owners of land in agricultural or forest production
Persons who are engaged in livestock, agricultural or forest production on eligible land and that have a natural resource concern on the land may participate in EQIP.

17. Burnell Farm Does Online Markets
Athens Locally Grown
Lilburn Locally Grown
Hamilton Locally Grown
Lawrenceville Locally Grown
Emmanuel College Online Market

18. Collaborative Community Support
Truly Living Well
An Urban Farm out of Atlanta, GA
Step of Faith Outreach, Inc.
A Faith based community outreach organization in Lavonia, GA
Emmanuel College
In Franklin Springs GA

19. Helping The Next Generation
For My Daughters’ Sake
Faith Based organization teaches young girls about farming and life skills to enhance their lives.

20. Closing
Through Community Support and the desire to help others one can build and sustain a productive farm.

21. Thank you
BurnellFarms.com
Tammy Burnell
Burnell farms