Leadership & Management Skills for Values-Driven Farm Businesses
Thu, Jun 26
|Los Angeles
Explore farm leadership, ethics, and values-driven business with success grounded in Profit, Planet, People, and Purpose.
Time & Location
Jun 26, 2025, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Los Angeles, 1220 N Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA
About the event
From stewarding LA’s growing land to being a successful business owner, as farmers, you’re tasked with many roles. This session will explore what it means to be a farm business entrepreneur and how we can recognize ourselves as leaders. Whether you are a one-person operation, a budding business, or just starting to sow some seeds, this workshop will help you examine the nuances of ethical business operations with quadruple bottom-line priorities — Profit, Planet, People, and Purpose.
We’ll explore how these concepts relate to traditional land-based practices and community-centered farming models. You’ll also learn practical leadership and management approaches that help cultivate a farm culture rooted in reciprocity, collaboration, and resilience. Through storytelling, quiet reflection, breakout conversations, and hands-on exercises, we’ll help you identify or refine your farm’s core values—the soul of your operation—and align them with your everyday decisions in the field and beyond.
This session will…
We reside, work, and cultivate food
on unceded Indigenous homelands.
We acknowledge and honor the descendants of the Tongva, Kizh, and Gabrieleño peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands). We pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.
As part of a greater foodshed, we would also like to pay respect to and honor the Chumash, Tataviam, Serrano, Kitanemuk, ʔíviĨuqaletem, Acjachemen, Payómkawichum, and any other tribal group possibly not mentioned. As a Food Policy Council for Los Angeles we recognize this land acknowledgment is limited and engagement is an ongoing process of learning and accountability. To learn more about these First Nations, visit here.