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Site Evaluation Questionaire
Lesson 5
Choose a Site
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Compare Your Options
Once you’ve identified 2-3 sites where you’re potentially interested in farming, compare them against each other. Evaluate each one on whether it meets the social, cultural, and environmental suitability criteria we outlined before. Consider roughly how much it will cost to travel to and from your farm.
Every site is unique and will have its own set of pros and cons. Ultimately, you’ll use these factors to help you whittle down the options and narrow in on the one site you believe will best suit your farming goals.
We’re created a site evaluation questionnaire to guide you through this process, but you could also easily create your own list or scoring matrix based on the factors you determine are most important to your region and farming goals. Use whatever system helps you stay the most organized, so you can objectively compare one location to another. Much of the information you collect during the site evaluation process will also be relevant when you go to apply for your lease and permit. Store this information in one easy-to-reference place to save time later on.