Viva Farms

Support Viva Farms this Giving Tuesday! 

“Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever.” - Robin Wall Kimmerer 

At Viva Farms, we care about farmers, community and food. We believe the health of our community is inextricably bound to the vitality of local agriculture. Viva Farms is a nonprofit farm-business training organization and incubator farm. We are based in Skagit and King County, Washington. We have a 16-year history of success growing the next generation of farmers, offering our programs in both English and Spanish to reflect the languages of our community. Our mission is to empower aspiring and limited-resource farmers by providing bilingual training in holistic organic farming practices, as well as access to land, infrastructure, equipment, marketing, capital, and community. To tour Viva Farms King County virtually, click here. 

Looking ahead to 2026, we are focused on completing our largest infrastructure project to date, The Barn at Viva Farms, growing our programs and land-base in King County, and supporting the launch of farmers in our incubator who are ready for longterm, secure land tenure off-site. At the start of the year, Viva Farms lost access to our contracted federal funds following changes in the priorities of the federal government: over $6M committed for the next several years and 70% of our annual budget was frozen. Although some grants have been turned back on, others have been terminated, and our funding for the future remains uncertain. We need you all, our community, to help preserve the land, resources, and support that the 34 incubating farm businesses in our program rely on - along with nearly 100 jobs and over $3M of local organic produce per year. 

Our goal for Giving Tuesday is to raise $15,000 to help us close the gap needed to fully fund our programs for 2026. While farmers retire and farmland dwindles across the county, we are working to grow the next generation of farmers that feed thousands of Washingtonians each year. We have 34 farm businesses incubating with us at the close of 2025, and 26 students recently graduated from our training course, the Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture. 

"We gave to Viva Farms originally because of our value system of caring for the earth. That’s something that we’re morally and ethically connected to. You’re doing good things - educating and training new farmers and getting small farms on the land.” -Nancy & Mary Ellen, recent donors 

To learn more about Viva Farms, please visit www.vivafarms.org and follow us on social media: Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn. Sign up for our once-a-month newsletter here.