Give Through Your Will

With Connecticut’s farms increasingly at risk, your gift can conserve cherished local places that provide the community with the connection to fresh food.

Now, more than ever, is the time where a gift in your Will is important.

You can save more farmland, and help more farmers, and ensure that these special places are never overly developed. When you leave a gift through your will to Connecticut Farmland Trust your passion lives on.

Making a gift in your will is easy to do and allows you to take care of friends, family, your community, and the farmland you love in Connecticut.

Why people choose to make a bequest

• It’s a great way to inspire others after your lifetime.
• You can change it at any time.
• It can lower your taxable estate, and therefore reduce your estate taxes.
• You can provide for your loved ones as well as Connecticut Farmland Trust in your Will.

Let us know about your designation in your will so that we can thank you, as well.

How to donate via your Will

You can donate a stated amount of cash, real-estate (houses, land, businesses), appreciated assets (stock investments or paintings, for example), a portion of your retirement fund or life insurance policy, or the residual after your estate has been processed pursuant to your wishes.

We suggest you consult your attorney or estate planning advisor and provide an example of language you could use:

“I hereby give to the Connecticut Farmland Trust, a nonprofit located in Hartford, Connecticut, with a business address of 77 Buckingham Street, Hartford, CT 06106, and with a tax identification number of 32-0007171, [describe gift or asset] for its general purposes.”