With your support, the White River Land Collaborative is transforming a historic 200-acre former organic dairy farm into a community hub that will be home to a regenerative livestock operation, additional farm-based businesses, Abenaki forest stewardship, and community educational activities. Together we can keep this beautiful iconic farm in the First Branch Valley as an active agricultural center and build an exciting model for land access and for supporting farm viability.

Working closely with Vermont Land Trust, the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School, our dynamic advisory board, and local community members, the Land Collaborative is creating a community-based collaborative farm and working landscape that is:

*Reducing barriers to land access;

*Supporting ecological stewardship of our agricultural and forest lands;

*Giving land access and management to local Abenaki land stewards;

*Permanently protecting key agricultural land from development; and

*Serving as a model for Vermont and beyond for community-based ownership/stewardship of agricultural land.

We are currently leasing the land from Vermont Land Trust and designing the future of the property, including bringing more collaborators into the project. We are raising funds to cover essential operating expenses, and at the same time, raising the money needed to acquire the land. (For more information or to donate to the land acquisition campaign, please contact Fran Miller at [email protected].)

Please give as generously as you are able to this important project.

Donations can be made by credit card, paypal, venmo or check, and are tax-deductible (depending on your tax situation) as the White River Land Collaborative is fiscally sponsored by Vital Communities, a Vermont registered 501c3 nonprofit.

THANK YOU!!

Photo credit:  Caleb Kenna