Combining Assets and Trust: Waterpenny Farm
This story starts in 1998 when we were both 25 years old and ready to start our own organic vegetable farm. We’d both worked for Chip and Susan Planck of Wheatland Vegetable Farms in northernmost Virginia for a number of years. During our time there we gained the desire to become farmers, as well as […]
New Report Shows Role for Investors in Saving Farmland
Meeting the farmland access challenge in New England requires creative approaches and new partners. A just-released report from the Land Access Project (LAP) investigates the potential role investors can play in helping farmers get onto farmland in our region. Farmland Investors: An Exploration for New England and Beyond takes a look at several values-based farmland […]