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CT Open Space Watershed Land Acquisition Grant Round Announced - Deadline May 3, 2010 Governor M. Jodi Rell announced today that funds are available to assist cities and towns and land conservation organizations with the purchase and preservation of open space lands and urban gardens through the state of Connecticut’s Open Space and Watershed Land Acquisition program. “We will award up to $5 million in grants for local land preservation,” Governor Rell said. “These grants help preserve thousands of beautiful and environmentally important acres in cities and town across our state.”
• Deadline: Monday, May 3, 2010
• Application: January 2010 version is available on DEP website: www.ct.gov/dep/openspace<http://www.ct.gov/dep/openspace> • Grant awards are expected to be awarded in the fall of 2010.
• For more information contact: Dave Stygar, (860) 424-3081 or Allyson Clarke, (860) 424-3774
For more information, please visit http://www.ct.gov/governorrell/cwp/view.asp?A=3872&Q=454700 . |
For immediate release Contact: Jennifer Kaufman AGvocate Eastern CT RC & D LINK TO APPLICATION 139 Wolf Den Road Brooklyn, CT 06234 860-450-6007
February 5, 2010
AGvocate Program Seeking Communities
The Connecticut Department of Agriculture has announced that it will fund a second year of the regional AGvocate program. Four additional municipalities will be selected to receive technical assistance from a circuit rider “AGvocate,” Jennifer Kaufman, to strengthen the farm-friendliness of community regulations and improve the viability of agricultural businesses within the community over the long term.
Municipalities that wish to apply should have prime agricultural soils and an active farm community. Both municipal officials and agricultural producers must be committed to creating tools to improve the understanding of agricultural issues and communication between local agricultural producers and other members of the community over the long-term.
Technical assistance may include, but is not limited to: initiating or improving the effectiveness of an existing Agricultural Commission; reviewing tax reduction options; planning for farmland protection; encouraging buy local opportunities; exploring methods to promote local farms; including agriculture in town plans; and right-to-farm ordinances.
The AGvocate program began in early 2009 when the CT Department of Agriculture awarded the first Farm Viability Grant to establish an AGvocate Pilot Program. Six towns, Ashford, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Franklin, Sterling, and Thompson, have been working with the AGvocate to implement tools and create action plans to help promote farm viability.
Municipalities interested in participating in the AGvocate program should contact Jennifer Kaufman at AGvocate@yahoo.com or 860-450-6007, for more information and for an application form. All applications must be received no later than Thursday, April 1, 2010.
Many thanks to the Connecticut Department of Agriculture for their support of this program.
AGvocate Steering Committee: Ben Bowell, New England Field Rep, American Farmland Trust •Lois Bruinooge, Deputy Executive Director, The Last Green Valley, Inc. (TLGV) • David Fuss, Town of Brooklyn Planning and Zoning Commission •John Guszkowski, President, Eastern CT RC&D • Rick Hermonot, Ekonk Hill Turkey Farm, & Farm and Business Consultant, First Pioneer Credit • Jennifer Kaufman, AGvocate (Staff) • Kevin Kennedy, Director of Planning, Town of Thompson • Joyce Meader, Dairy /Livestock Educator, UConn Cooperative Extension • Dawn Pindell, Executive Director, Windham County Farm Service Agency • Norma O’Leary, Chair, TLGV Natural Resources & Agriculture Committee • Elizabeth Rogers, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service |
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