Farmland Preservation and Farm Transfer Links
Maine FarmLink
A farm transfer program that connects farmers seeking farmland
with farmers and farm owners that are selling, transferring or leasing their
farms and farmland. For more information contact Esther Lacognata, Maine FarmLink Coordinator,
97 Main Street, Belfast, Maine 04915,
tel: 338-6575,
fax: 338-6024
New England Small Farm Institute
A private non-profit organization supporting beginning farmers and sustainable
small scale agriculture throughout New England.
New
England Land-Link (NELL)
A comprehensive, regional farm transfer program sponsored by the
New England Small Farm Institute
American Farmland Trust
A private, nonprofit organization founded in 1980 to protect our nation's farmland.
AFT works to stop the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming
practices that lead to a healthy environment.
Land Trust Alliance
Promotes voluntary land conservation and strengthens the land trust movement
by providing leadership, information, skills and resources land trusts need
to conserve land for the benefit of communitites and natural systems. LTA/Northeast
serves New york and the six New England states.
Massachusetts
APR Program
A voluntary program intended to offer a non-development alternatives to farmers
and other land owners who are faced with a decision regarding future use and
disposition of their farms.
Working Farm Landscapes:
Resources for the Northeast
A compilation of resources put together through the Harvard University
Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies.
National Farm
Transition Network, established in 1992 to promote programs that support
the next generation of family farms.
Other Linking Programs
Land Link Vermont
Maryland
Farm Link
New
Jersey Farm Link
New York
Farmlink
Pennsylvania
Farm Link
