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Thank you to all those who have contributed to our year-end fundraising campaign. Your gift helps keep Vermont's land-based economy vital and local food on our tables. If you haven't given, please make a gift today. Your donations have contributed to some of our recent successes: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highlights from 2007-2008 | What's New?
Did you know? Vermonters value the working landscape. This is something that is confirmed year after year as we travel the state and speak with members. Not surprisingly, over 97% of respondents to a recent survey (PDF) completed by the Council on the Future of Vermont said that they value the state’s working landscape and heritage. More respondents agreed on this than any other statement in the survey! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hardwick: Over the past year, VLT witnessed a record number of easement donations, each with its own story. In the case of Henry and Barbara “Barrie” Jordan’s donation of the development rights on 128 acres in Hardwick, the story is about some neighbors, their shared history on the land, and the role they have played in their community’s recent resurgence ….read more. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monkton: Deb Brighton has long advocated for conservation in Vermont, but she had a nagging feeling that she could do more. “In Vermont, we conserve the land,” she explains “but if we also want more people having connections to the land, we need to change things slightly to assure more people of average means can afford forestland ownership” ….read more. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hinesburg: Once in a while, a conservation opportunity comes along that has the potential to protect much of what a community values. These community resources—productive agricultural land, water quality, recreational accessibility and unusual species habitat—characterize the 600 acres that were acquired and conserved in 2007….read more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marshfield: Virginia “Dinny” Stranahan was not your average heiress. When she came to Vermont 40 years ago, she came to work. She operated a dairy farm, raised sheep, and started the Marshfield School of Weaving. When she left farming, she conserved the farmland and sold 210 acres to a local farm family through VLT in 1983 ….read more. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rutland: Rutland farmer Greg Cox likes to talk about his diversified farm in terms of Rudolf Steiner’s theory of biodynamics. “My philosophy is that you need to think about the farm as a whole and how things are connected,” he explains. “And also how people are part of that connection.” ….read more. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The land we conserve is important to farmers, forest workers, hikers, and visitors. We thank all of our supporters for sharing this vision of an open, rural, working landscape. A gift today will help ensure that future generations will enjoy the Vermont you love. Please donate today!
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