NYC Community Land Initiative
Working the urban landscape: From the NYC Community Land Initiative: Expanding Community Land Trusts in New York City is a big and complex goal, so we have broken into groups to work on different pieces of the puzzle. EDUCATION & OUTREACH The housing crisis is big, and the community land trust model is complex, so this […]
Shared Assets: Helping Communities Improve the Commons
Shared Assets is a not-for-profit company founded in December 2011 to: Promote the potential for social enterprise and the voluntary and community sector to deliver urban and rural regeneration through the management of environmental assets such as woodlands, waterways and green spaces Work with public, private and charitable owners of large environmental assets in order […]
Organic Dairy Farmer Training Program in Maine
Before finding land, farmers need to be confident in their skills and knowledge. Those who don’t come to farming through family inheritance can learn on the job. Here’s an opportunity for those interested in dairy. The program helps train in all aspects of the dairy business, and even offers assistance in finding land, securing financing […]
British Land Cooperative Looks for Support
From the Ecological Land Cooperative: Based on the success of our first cluster of small farms at Greenham Reach, Devon, we have developed plans to create around 20 new ecological smallholdings between 2015 and 2020. We are inviting applications for £340,000 of community shares in our co-operative to fund our next cluster of farms, delivered […]
Average Land Prices in 8 Countries
The Irish Farmers Journal has highlighted the cost of good earth in these graphics: Read the weekly Irish Farm Journal.
Required Reading: Land, Class and Wealth
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South African Farms Face Hurdles for Country’s Food Security
If any of the 3% of South African farmland supplying 95% of formal sector food fell out of large-scale production, it could have serious consequences for the country’s food security. From an article about a recent World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) report: The WWF report, “Farming Facts and Figures”, provides a snapshot of the country’s […]
Adverse Possession: Ownership through Occupation
An obscure law called “adverse possession” allows ownership through occupation, not through purchase or inheritance. Could what has been used as a legal basis for some residences apply to farmland? This story from California Northern by Chris Smith details the story of one California resident that acquired his home by living in it: One night a […]
More from Occupying Yorkley Community Farm
We featured Yorkley Community Farm in our blog earlier this month. Now in their own words: The Land Is Yours.. What’s it worth to you? For those currently occupying Yorkley Court Community Farm, it is their life blood, it is their home, it is where they get their water, where they get their fuel for […]
Event Addresses New Challenges in CA 5/3
Mary Berry, daughter of Wendell Berry, will talk at Oliveto Restaurant in Oaklnd this Sundy about the health of farm communities, local food economies, and her work trying to resurrect them from corporate abuse. This is a significant problem with a new dimension in California, where already exorbitant farmland prices are rising and getting new […]