Farmlands Best Suited for Preservation by Community Farm Land Trust

CFLT seeks farms that will produce food for our local communities, now and in the future. CFLT evaluates each property for possible outright purchase or for purchase of an agricultural conservation easement. We recognize that each property will offer unique challenges and opportunities; however, we consider the following criteria:

Current Farm Status:  Preferred farmland would be currently or quite recently farmed with infrastructure needed for growing food products such as row crops, orchards, livestock (water/irrigation, buildings, storage, electricity for refrigeration, etc). Farmer housing would make the property more desirable.

Sustainable agricultural practices: 
​We welcome conversations with actively farming families who would like to see their farm continue as working farmland forever. We work with landowners who want to see sustainable agricultural practices on their protected land.​

Water rights: 
​Land with active water rights provides greater flexibility for food production and is of special interest to us.

Soils:
​Most of the land should have good, well drained agricultural soils, consisting primarily of tillable acreage or pasture.

Size: 
​In general, we are interested in properties that are 20 acres or more in size, although smaller acreages can be very productive and economically viable.

​Near the urban/suburban fringe: Farms just outside the urban growth area that are the highest risk of future development or face other threats to continued farm use can be considered, although affordability and funding may be a challenge.​

Connect with us if you know of farmland of this type that needs to be preserved and farmed, forever.