The White River Land Collaborative works to make land affordable for Vermont farmers.
Access to affordable farmland is the biggest barrier for the next generation of farmers. This is a nationwide issue that The White River Land Collaborative is tackling here in Vermont.
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About the White River Land Collaborative
The White River Land Collaborative is a farmer- and Abenaki-led collaborative dedicated to enabling affordable and sustainable access to farmland and adjacent natural areas for the next generation of farmers and land stewards.
Our work strives to ensure health, wellbeing and a secure future for the people who are in direct relationship with the land and at the center of our local food systems.
Tracy Zschau
Executive Director
Vermont Land Trust
"This project serves as a model throughout the state as Vermonters in every community work to preserve their working landscape, support the next generation of farmers, increase local food availability and accessibility, and strengthen community relationships.We are excited to partner with the White River Land Collaborative to make this a reality."
Our Work
Our first project involves a historic dairy farm in Tunbridge, Vermont that has deep roots in the agricultural heritage of this White River valley town.
Young farmers are currently leasing this land raising organic livestock and hosting popular farm to table community events. An Abenaki-led forest management team is integrating Indigenous Knowledge with current management and conservation practices. Together these land stewards work to create a balanced form of land stewardship that improves the health and resilience of the land and ecosystems. They have also welcomed hundreds of people onto the land to learn and celebrate our connections to the land, the ecological communities and the people who feed us.
We are working to make this land affordable and secure for farmers and land stewards already working here as we begin broader work of affordable farmland on a wider scale.
Help us build this foundation, so we can expand our work to reach more farms, forests, and the people who care for them.
Raise Your Hand in Support!
If you have been inspired by the broad work of the White River Land Collaborative, visited this iconic farm in Tunbridge, and/or fed, body and soul, by the farmers and the forest stewards on this land, please show your support with a donation of any size.
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Your support today will build toward our capital campaign to purchase the Tunbridge farm and secure this land for its farm and land stewards. Only then can we really dig deep into developing new ownership and conservation models to ensure that both this land and land more broadly remains affordable for generations to come.
Organized by: White River Land Collaborative
Sponsored by: Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions
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