Succession Plan has the Community in Mind
A 153 year-old family farm in Saratoga Springs, NY gets a plan for the future that could include education, a farm incubator and more. From an article Dennis Yusko in […]
Farming Under Police Surveillance
Michael Segalov uncovers the story of Yorkley Court Community Farm: (from Munchies) “The pattern of land ownership is complex, but in the UK today, it’s all owned by someone. It’s enclosed,” […]
Cooperative Farms in Upstate New York
By Kathryn Shattuck from The New York Times It was time for the running of the bulls. As Ron Cieri watched from his ATV this summer, his farm manager, Jim […]
Going Rural to Get the Farm
By Kathryn Flagg from Seven Days VT When Lila Bennett and David Robb set out to buy a farm in central Vermont, they had to get used to disappointment: Multiple […]
Latest on US Farmland Values
From USDA Land Values 2014 Summary, published August 2014 The United States farm real estate value, a measurement of the value of all land and buildings on farms, averaged $2,950 […]
Workers in Maine Buy Out their Jobs
By Rob Brown, Noemi Giszpenc and Brian Van Slyke from truthout.org On remote Deer Isle, Maine, the movement for a more just and democratic economy won a major victory this summer. […]
Farmland Meets Finance
from Food First Farmland Meets Finance: Is Land the New Economic Bubble? Madeleine Fairbairn | 05.26.2014 May 2014, Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 5 At the turn of the 21st century, […]
Featured Resource: Vermont Law School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems
Heroic Endeavors: Vermont Law School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) by Leslie Hatfield | from EcoCentric The movement toward simpler food can be complicated. Entrepreneurs looking to start […]
What do you mean when you say . . .
Leasehold Estate: A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property in which a lessee or a tenant holds rights of real property by […]
The Lexicon of Sustainability Highlights Land Trusts
From the Lexicon of Sustainability: In some parts of the U.S., a farm is worth more for its real estate than for what it grows and valuable food-producing land, which […]