Farmland Protection Story: American Farmland Trust Protects Wolfe's Neck Center in Freeport, Maine

What is an agricultural easement and what’s an example of one?
Since our founding in 1980, American Farmland Trust has helped to protect 8 million acres of farm and ranch land from development and other uses that jeopardize farming. The way we protect this land is primarily through agricultural conservation easements. An agricultural conservation easement is a legal document that ensures that development will never happen on that property. One of the best examples of this kind of conservation is our partnership with the @Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment in Freeport, Maine.
“It's the conservation easement that American Farmland Trust holds on the property that gives us and our community, frankly, the reassurance that this property will always be used in the way that the Smith family had intended that it be used,” shares Dave Herring, Executive Director of the Wolfe’s Neck Center.
Operating as a nonprofit organization since 1997, and an organic coastal farm for over sixty years, Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment is a farm-based education, research, and visitor center set amidst more than 600 acres of conserved open space along Casco Bay in Freeport. The Center works to accelerate change in food systems and mitigate the effects of a changing climate through regenerative farming demonstration and training, innovative research, and collaborations.
“Looking ahead, we love being able to walk arm in arm with AFT to try and find solutions to the problems that we're all facing,” explains Dave.
-Learn more about AFT’s land protection efforts here: bit.ly/3UkMKZ6
-Immerse yourself in all the Wolfe’s Neck Center offers here: www.wolfesneck...
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