The Commons, Inc. and The Campbell Foundation announced the launch of Conservation Concierge®, a groundbreaking assistant designed to support the complex process of identifying, planning, and applying for agricultural conservation funding. This tool not only identifies pathways to conservation but also supports farm economic viability.

For farmers, Conservation Concierge helps identify money-saving opportunities through straightforward, plain-language prompts, informed by farm-specific data and unique priorities provided by the user. For conservation planners, this tool saves costs associated with accessing data and conducting multiple site visits.

Using a simple conversational interface, Conservation Concierge helps farmers, agricultural advisors, and conservation professionals access conservation funding, which has been a significant hurdle for American agriculture. This tool overcomes these bottlenecks by accessing highly technical conservation information and navigating a variety of funding programs.

Users can easily draw a boundary, ask a question, and get clear, site-specific conservation practice recommendations in minutes. Farmers, advisors, and other practitioners can also bring their own specific objectives, expertise, and data into the system — field records, soil tests, management history, and on-the-ground observations — so that every analysis is tuned to the realities of their specific site. All farm information is kept strictly confidential.

The Campbell Foundation’s investment in Conservation Concierge is in service of empowering farmers who are ready and willing to expand conservation implementation and realize on-farm benefits.

“Farmers are problem-solvers, and our job is to understand what could help them with their most intractable problems,” said Samantha Campbell, President of The Campbell Foundation. “This exciting new tool enables a sweeping change in the way conservation funding is accessed, which I hope will alleviate obstacles and create opportunities on the land.”

“Conservation professionals carry deep, hard-won knowledge of the landscapes they serve. What they often do not have is an easy, credible way to turn that knowledge into evidence that moves farmers, funders, and agency partners to act,” said R. John Dawes, Co-Founder/Executive Director of The Commons. “Conservation Concierge is built for that moment. It’s a place to ask questions, test restoration strategy ideas, and get site-specific analysis that you can use.”

Conservation Concierge is available now at www.fielddoc.com/groundwork.