Category: Investment News
Jacqueline’s child, Liam, stands among the lambs at Central Grazing Co
Jacqueline Smith of Central Grazing Company is instigating food systems change in Northeastern Kansas and beyond. In 2023, Central Grazing will sell approximately 2,000 lambs. These lambs are sourced from Jacqueline’s farm as well as from several other regenerative sheep farms in Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Idaho. The Central Grazing network of sheep farmers regenerate depleted soils...
Financing a Land Back initiative for members of the Mohawk Nation
Written by Lacey Benz on . Posted in Investment News, News & Media.
A rainbow shines over the Longhouse structure on the Berry Farm
Indigenous Stewardship at the Berry Farm in Schoharie County, New York
Deep in the Schoharie Valley of New York, a sixty-acre farm is the site of an ancient Mohawk village rich with cultural history. Members of the Mohawk Nation identified the land and united to form a land back effort to acquire the property and return to their ancestral homelands. Amber is proud to participate in financing the purchase of the farm and...
Black Wind Farm: An investment in a veteran farmer’s journey to farmland ownership in New York
Written by Lacey Benz on . Posted in Investment News.
We are so proud to welcome Justin Butts to our portfolio. Justin is a first-generation, Navy veteran farmer with extensive and varied experience – he’s a farmer, a small business owner, and a chef. Hear Justin tell his story in this Sustainable Dish podcast episode.
Justin was the livestock manager at Soul Fire Farm, “an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system.” Soul Fire Farm’s wide-ranging and deeply impactful...
Eli’s Ridge: Pasture & forest-raised livestock in the heart of North Carolina
Written by Lacey Benz on . Posted in Investment News.
Shawn and Jennifer Hatley are fourth-generation farmers in Stanly County who raise sheep, pigs, cows, ducks, and chickens with their sons, Blake and Eli. The Hatleys apply sustainable and regenerative farming principles and work within a perennial pasture and forest-based farming system (also known as silvopasture) in Oakboro, a suburb of Charlotte. We approved financing for the Hatleys to purchase a 108-acre property from Shawn’s father, David Hatley, by the end of August, marking...

