The Connecticut Department of Agriculture's Community Farms Preservation Program offers $2 million for cooperative state-local farmland preservation projects in qualifying municipalities. Interested municipalities must pre-qualify by May 31, 2012; applications will be due by July 31, 2012. Preference will be given to small food-producing farms. Details linked here for the www.ct.gov site. This pilot program, authorized by Connecticut General Statutes 22-26nn, allocates Community Investment Act funds for cooperative state-local farmland preservation projects in qualifying municipalities.
