Beyond setting fair policies, fairness in the workplace also requires establishing relationships of respect and reciprocity. This section gathers a few general resources to help you re-imagine relationships on and around the farm.
- Community agreements are a way to set expectations about how people will treat each other and an important tool for building a workplace culture of collaboration and respect.
- Soul Fire Farm shares two models for healthy, respectful communication on the farm: Real Talk for feedback and evaluations and Courageous Conversations for resolving conflicts and grievances.
- In the introduction to her book Cooperative Farming, Faith Gilbert describes what it means to farm cooperatively.
- Rock Steady Farm offers a video presentation on How to Support an Inclusive Workplace Culture.
- In her article The Next Build in the Small Farm Sector: Resilient Relational Systems, Polly Shyka suggests farmers need to think about interpersonal relationships as another important dimension of farming sustainably.
For more resources on workplace relationships, see our full Human Relations section.