September 16, 2019

#LoveYourCTLandTrust Featuring Connecticut's Amazing Land Trusts

Woodbridge Land Trust

Baldwin Road Farm

The Woodbridge Land Trust, together with the CT Dept. of Agriculture, acquired an agricultural conservation easement to protect the Baldwin Road Farm through the state's Farmland Preservation Program. “In keeping with the Trust’s 50 year history and core mission to conserve, preserve and protect our natural resources, we are thrilled to be able to preserve the farm for Woodbridge and the greater New Haven community,” said the land trust’s President Bryan Pines. The acquisition is the culmination of over a decade’s work on the land trust’s part to find ways to protect Baldwin Road Farm from being lost to high density development ...

Steep Rock Association Connecticut Farmland Trust

Johnson Farm

Thanks to a partnership between Steep Rock Association (SRA) and the Connecticut Farmland Trust, funded in part by a CT DEEP Open Space and Watershed Land Acquisition Grant, the Johnson Farm in Washington has been permanently protected. Located on a scenic road and within walking distance from SRA’s West Mountain Preserve, the property will continue to be farmed by Eliot Johnson, a third-generation farmer who grows hay and raises grass-fed beef. The property provides habitat for birds that nest in pastureland and late-cut fields, as well as expanded opportunities for hiking trails and open space connectivity in the Washington area ...

Wintonbury Land Trust

Beacon Hill Preserve

Wintonbury Land Trust acquired a hardwood forest adjacent to the Wintonbury Hills golf course. Originally intended for a residential subdivision, the property includes a pinnacle 140 feet above the town center, within the rolling golf course terrain, offering spectacular views of a town reservoir to the east and Penwood State Park on Metacomet ridge to the west. The land trust intends to develop a trail system that will link the property to nearby neighborhoods ...

By their very mission, land trusts are created to save land. Working together with landowners, members of their community, and other partners, Connecticut land trusts have protected over 200,000 acres.   From our farthest rural corners to most densely populated urban centers - the work of Connecticut land trusts is all around you. #LoveYourCTLandTrust -- they work hard every day to save the land you love. Sincerely, Amy Blaymore Paterson, Esq. Executive Director abpaterson@ctconservation.org

Photos courtesy of Woodbridge Land Trust, Woody Campbell, and Wintonbury Land Trust,

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