A guide for facilitators, technical assistance providers, educators, and others who support growers navigating drought and water scarcity.

This guide is designed to give you the context, facilitation approach, and resources to support farmers as they navigate water resilience on their farms.

The grower toolkit is where growers do the hands-on assessment and planning work. This guide gives you a facilitator’s view of that same content: what to know before a site visit, how to convene groups effectively, and how to connect farmers with the right resources and to each other.

The Water Resilience Toolkit was co-developed by the Dry Farming Institute and Oregon State University’s Dry Farming Program, through more than a decade of collaborative research with farmers and agricultural service providers across the West Coast. This facilitator guide is the companion resource for those who support that work in the field.

Note: You can move through this guide in order or go directly to the section most relevant to your work right now.