Newsletters & Events
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Tending the land & building a farm
While we’ve been quiet online, we have been hard at work at our new FAIR Farms Gambia location. As we always say, farming is a unique business. It takes a LOT of startup investment into infrastructure and the land, and often, you won’t see those investments payback for several years as the farm develops into
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Sustainability Success – Building Back on Preserved Farmland
Thanks to the dedicated support of over 75 individuals, we are ecstatic to share we have secured new operating land for FAIR Farms Gambia. Located in Busura, this nearly 5 hectare (~11.5 acre) site is larger than our initial pilot farm. The farmland is high quality, filled with endemic trees, grasses and plants we seek
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Welcome to FAIR Farms Gambia!
Thanks for joining our newsletter and supporting us in our mission for just food system co-creation. FAIR Farms Gambia is the scale up of Gambia Goat Dairy, expanding the demonstration and research farm model into diversified, circular farming. Our farm showcased: Our website provides a place to showcase our program evaluations, accomplishments, latest research publications
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Losing access to our farm land – and building back for enhanced sustainability!
In late 2023, FAIR Farms Gambia lost access to the land we built our pilot demonstration and research farms, Gambia Goat Dairy and FAIR Farms Gambia. From empty land in 2018, we built a demonstration and research farm. Doing so we: When we officially partnered with Penn Vet, our landowning organization charged rental costs we
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