Office Address
Working Lands Alliance
78 Beaver Road, Suite 2A
Wethersfield, CT 06109
Working Lands Alliance Staff:
Chelsea Gazillo, Project Director
Email: cgazillo@farmland.org
Phone: 860-768-1100 Ext 107(office)
A Project of American Farmland Trust
It's important to celebrate the successful protection of Connecticut farmland. This is great news!
On April 18th the House marked up the first draft of the 2018 Farm Bill. This bill is the first legislative step towards passing a 2018 Farm Bill to replace the current legislation, which expires on September 30th. Check out this great blog article written by American Farmland Trust.
Note that the "buy-protect-sell" tool within the Agricultural Conservation Easement Programs (ACEP) was not included in this first piece of legislation. HOWEVER, WLA actively supports SB 102 which is a current bill in the Connecticut General Assembly that will allow CT to adopt its own version of "buy-protect-sell" programming.
www.farmland.org/blog/farm-policy-update-where-we-stand-after-the-first-farm-bill-markup
We said Goodbye and paid tribute to our friend Henry Talmage who is the Executive Director of Connecticut Farm Bureau at our Steering Committee meeting on Tuesday. Thank you The Farmer's Cow for providing us with tasty ice cream. The Governor stopped by and gave Henry a Governor's Proclamation for his hard work in Connecticut's dairy industry.
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Working Lands Alliance
C/o American Farmland Trust
78 Beaver Road, Suite 2A
Wethersfield, CT 06109
Phone: 860-683-4230
