The Community Farm Land Trust Working Group is meeting to identify strategies for protecting local produce/meat/dairy farms – including the land, structures, and businesses. One of the central strategies is to assist farmers who own and operate food-producing farms in the region with developing Strategic Farm Conservation Plans for their land and businesses.

The Community Farmland Trust Working Group seeks to develop detailed, county-by-county GIS (geographic information systems) maps and databases of food-producing farms as the basis of an outreach effort to contact individual farm owners to determine needs for strategic conservation plans.

To achieve this level of farm support, the Community Farmland Trust Working Group will facilitate and coordinate partnerships with:

• Cooperative Extension agents in Orange, Durham, Chatham, Alamance, Caswell, and Person Counties.

• Statewide farm organizations such as NC Farm Transition Network, American Farmland Trust, and Carolina Farm Stewardship Association.

• Land trusts such as the Triangle Land Conservancy, Eno River Association, Tar River Land Conservancy, and Piedmont Land Conservancy.

• Conservation consulting groups such as Unique Places (www.uniqueplacesllc.com) and Land In Common (www.landincommon.org).

Opportunities for a non-profit Community Farm Trust are being explored as a means of securing a land base for affordable, sustainable food production (a food commons for the Triangle region).

Join this working group:

The Community Farmland Trust working group is being moderated/facilitated by David Harper, of Land in Common. Email david AT landincommon.org with a brief message explaining your interest to sign up for this working group and/or to be added to the listserve so you can here about upcoming meetings.

Folks currently signed up for this group include:

David Harper david AT landincommon.org
Liane Salgado gamberster AT gmail.com
Tandy Jones tandy AT tlc-nc.org
Julia Mullen jmullen13 AT hotmail.com
Spence spencetm AT aol.com
Rich Shaw rshaw AT co.orange.nc.us
Lauren Carreto laurencarreto AT earthlink.net
Rebecca Page Rebecca.page AT earthlink.net
Noah Ranells nranells AT co.orange.nc.us
Gerry Cohn gcohn AT farmland.org

Review notes from our past meetings:

coming soon…

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