Important Land Event Wednesday in CA
Land access is a serious challenge facing small-scale farmers. Concentration of ownership, increasing farm size, rural gentrification, financial speculation, and rising pressure from residential and industrial real estate developers have made farmland increasingly difficult to get. One strategy for increasing land access that we are seeing with increasing frequency is the development of land trusts […]
Taking on the Big Land Grab
From the Land Stewardship Project by Sarah Claassen: This fall, 19 Land Stewardship Project members traveled to county courthouses across Minnesota and dug through real estate transaction records to help compile data on the state of land consolidation in rural areas. These researchers represent an important first step in a major new LSP campaign to […]