Land Access

The way we use our land impacts more than agricultural communities. Land use decisions shape our food system, our landscape, and our community economy. For this reason, land use management should focus on ecological integration and protect publicly held land for agricultural purposes.

With more and more competition from investors, arable land is increasingly lost to development. This makes accessing land harder for farmers. Land access is inextricably linked to credit access and the opportunity to build equity. However, the challenge of obtaining credit and thus also accessing land is becoming larger than ever before for small-scale farmers, organic and polyculture farmers, and farmers of color.

You can learn more about challenges in land access here or here.

In 2025, PIF launched a new initiative with national non-profit, Agrarian Trust, to bring the Agrarian Commons to Texas. By acquiring and developing a 50+ acre site into a forever farm, we are introducing a sustainable solution to the critical challenge of farmland access. Read more about the initiative here and get involved by reaching out to us at commons@plantitforward.farm.