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Holding onto Farmland, One Land Trust at a Time

Modern Farmer

Situated in Olympia, Washington along the shores of Puget Sound, the fertile land and waterfront views make the farm an ideal spot. Without farmland to grow crops or ranchland for livestock, we don’t eat. Conserving farmland underpins a stable local food supply. But real estate developers can afford it.

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These Nebraska Tribes Are Buying Back Farmland and Attempting to Reverse History

Modern Farmer

The tribe only owns roughly 27,000 acres of its 120,000-acre reservation, after U.S. government actions directly or indirectly led its farmland to pass into non-Native hands— mostly white farmers. The Winnebago Tribe spent nearly $10,000 per acre, on average, to buy back 340 acres of ag land. So they lost it.”

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Q&A: Why Do Small-Scale Farmers Persist in Place?

Daily Yonder

Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. Since we had land—and we also had a good relationship with the local Farmer’s Cooperative, which generously donated seeds, plants, and fertilizer—a garden felt like a good way to support the community.

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California Will Help BIPOC Collective Cultivate Land Access for Underserved Farmers

Civil Eats

Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community. Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country. growers and owned more than 16 million acres of land. Today, they make up just 1.3

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A Deep Dive on the Senate’s Farm Bill Proposal: the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters.

Civil Eats

Some of the most pristine farmland in California can be yours, at least by proxy, in just a matter of minutes. farmland, makes to prospective financiers. AcreTrader is just one of many companies launched in the past decade that facilitate the sale of farmland, which has increasingly become a staple in investor portfolios.

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Secrets of the swamp

Food Environment and Reporting Network

At 60,000 acres, the proposed pool could swallow entire Florida cities. Eventually, the reservoir was whittled down to just 10,000 acres. The Everglades Foundation was formed in the 1990s by two wealthy fishing buddies—billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II and an Orlando real estate developer named George Barley.

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