NCAT Demonstration Farm
![SIFT farm stand NCAT Demonstration Farm, SIFT farm stand](https://attra.ncat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/SIFT-farm-stand-800x430.jpeg)
The National Center for Appropriate Technology’s SIFT – or Small-Scale Intensive Farm Training program – aims to help communities increase their food security by producing their own healthy food.
NCAT’s SIFT is a working, sustainably managed demonstration farm on five acres at our Butte, Montana, headquarters.
This farm is the center of a program that teaches farmers and future farmers, urban food producers, community leaders, and citizens how to produce high-value, nutrient-rich food on small parcels of land. And in Butte’s case, in a challenging climate.
Learn more about SIFT in the resources below.
![rainbow over hoop house and rows of vegetables](https://attra.ncat.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SIFT-farm-with-rainbow_square_yR3W-495x400.jpg)
![Onion bed on SIFT farm.](https://attra.ncat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/onions-on-sift-farm-495x400.jpg)
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![water infiltration test](https://attra.ncat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Giant-poppies-495x400.jpg)
![](https://attra.ncat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/podcast-253-photo-495x400.png)
![](https://attra.ncat.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sift-2-495x307.jpg)
![](https://attra.ncat.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/sift-plants-495x307.jpg)
![A hoophouse](https://attra.ncat.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/sift-am-hoop.jpg)
![](https://attra.ncat.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/sift-plants-495x307.jpg)
![](https://attra.ncat.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sift-495x307.jpg)
![A farmer harvests grapes](https://attra.ncat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Farmer-harvesting-grapes-495x400.png)
![NCAT SIFT Farm](https://attra.ncat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/RS9539_DSCN04901-scaled-1-495x400.jpg)