Mentoring programs that match experienced agricultural practitioners with new agrarians strengthen the local foods movement by providing experiential education on farms and ranches and bringing new, diverse producers into agriculture. As fewer Americans grow up on farms or ranches, land-based experiential training programs build skills for aspiring, beginning, or first- generation farmers and create pathways to agricultural careers, opportunities in the broader food system, and farm or ranch ownership. Work-learning opportunities often include apprenticeships or internships, incubator farm programs, student on- campus farms, or other land-based skills programs. Work-learning exchanges in the sustainable agriculture sector are often provided by farmers or ranchers with decades of production experience who play a significant training or mentoring role. These skilled mentors are optimistic about the future of agriculture—they believe the industry holds opportunities for people who have the desire to succeed and live an agrarian lifestyle—and they consider themselves knowledgeable practitioners willing to pass on their knowledge. They invest the time in coaching, training, and mentoring potential future successors and share their values around land stewardship, food production, and community building. This toolkit is designed to introduce your apprenticeship training program to the topics and frameworks that mentors have identified as challenges and that are important for mentors to address to offer a successful learning experience for their trainees. While your mentors are likely experts in their field with many years of experience running an agricultural business, they still benefit from improving their skills and capacities as mentors, educators, and life-long learners. Your program is in an excellent position to introduce new tools and resources to your mentors. Mentors will benefit from new resources and skills to address the many and nuanced aspects of running an agricultural business while providing a quality educational experience for their trainees. No one is better qualified to grow a new agrarian than an experienced mentor with many years on the land, but not every rancher or farmer is cut out for the job and some mentors will be better or more skilled than others.