No Farms, No Food! Preserving the Land Base

How do we scale the preservation of farm and ranchland?
Changemakers Day
August 29, 2008

Click here for a full report from panelist Constance Washburn, Education Director at Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT).

Every single minute of every day, America loses two acres of the farmland that sustains us. We’re losing our best land—the most fertile and productive—the fastest. A panel of leading experts on farmland preservation will have a conversation about the different ways communities have come together to save the farmland around them and also discuss possible new solutions to saving farmland where it is disappearing the fastest. Ralph Grossi, the former President of the American Farmland Trust, will give an overview of the variety of successful farmland protection programs and activities across the county. He will be joined by California land conservation leaders talking about how their different programs have saved farms and ranches in their communities.

Moderator: Constance Washburn, Marin Agricultural Land Trust
Panelists: Ralph Grossi, American Farmland Trust, Andrea MacKenzie, Sonoma Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District; Jeremy Madsen, Greenbelt Alliance; Nita Vail, California Rangeland Trust

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