Houses are now bigger than barns used to store hay and house livestock. Fertile and potentially productive lands are going under housing, commercial buildings, roadways.Those interested in land use, local food, and farmland preservation can mark Saturday, March 27 for a “Plowing Ahead: Farmland Preservation in 2010 and Beyond” conference, at Kroon Hall, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Registration is $45 for the all-day event in New Haven, Connecticut.
Sponsored by USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, this is part of the Working Lands Alliance, a project of American Farmland Trust.
See www.workinglandsalliance.org/conference for more information.
