Posts by Dorene Warner

Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust Year Protected: 2018 Acres: 25.8 Acting on their longtime belief in land preservation, the Diguilio family donated their farm’s development rights to CFT and pledged…

Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust, CT Dept. of Agriculture, New Hartford Land Trust, and the Town of New Hartford Year Protected: 2018 Acres: 85.5 CFT and its partners, the CT…

Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust Year Protected: 2018 Acres: 64.5 Leone Farm is the the first farm protected in 2018. In partnership with the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service and the…

Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust Year Protected: 2017 Acres: 4.6 At the cusp of the New Year, Connecticut Farmland Trust protected New Mercies Farm in Lyme, Connecticut. It’s quite the…

Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust, Morris Land Trust Year Protected: 2017 Acres: 138 In partnership with the Morris Land Trust, we have jointly preserved 138 acres pre-Revolutionary era Farnham Farm…

Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust Year Protected: 2017 Acres: 55.2 Ballek Farm has been family owned for over 350 years. The location was hand selected in 1661 by an Englishman…

In conjunction with the Town of Coventry, the Connecticut Department of Agriculture and Joshua’s Trust, a beef cattle farm started nearly one hundred years ago has been saved. More than…

The 38.6 acres surrounding a historic farm house in Lebanon, Connecticut contain 100% prime farmland soils. Such a farm was perfect for Howard Wayland, a retired electrical engineer and a…

The end of 2016 brought us the best kind of gift: the opportunity to permanently protect another family farm. Before welcoming the New Year, we celebrated closing on the protection of McGuire…