Northeast Beginning Farmer Project

Getting tangled up over outputs, outcomes, milestones, and impacts? Struggling to figure out how to develop an evaluation strategy to measure the real impact of your work?

Here are some resources to get you started. Please email if you have other documents you’d like to share with your colleagues in the Northeast Beginning Farmer Learning Network.

• Measuring Change (PDF) – presentation by Anu Rangarajan from the Cornell Small Farms Program at the Oct. 2010 BF Learning Network meeting
• Notes from Impact Evaluation presentation (PDF) – Notes from the discussion that followed Anu’s presentation
• Handouts from Anu’s presentation:

• Outcome Measurements for Standard BFRDP Grants (DOC)
• 3 Steps In Planning a Verification Evaluation Strategy (PDF)
• Farmer Cover Crops Example – Milestone & Performance Target (DOC)