young people’s farm

Readers Respond to Front Page Story

We're still celebrating last week's great coverage in the Omaha World Herald of the Driscolls' 53 acres - the first Iowa land ever to be permanently protected to grow healthy food. The article appeared as the main story on the front page. We've received some wonderful responses, including this sweet note with a $5 bill and a letter to the editor praising the Driscolls. The article also helped fill our Showcase Day July 8 to an overflow crowd. Every bit makes a difference. Only $199,995  to go! Whether we own it forever or sell it to a food farmer with an easement on it in the next [...]

2023-11-07T13:59:15-06:00July 5th, 2016|News|0 Comments

Western Iowa newspapers cover SILT

SILT's new Loess Hills Young People's Farm A swing through Western Iowa in September resulted in this excellent story running in the Clarinda Herald-Journal and the Council Bluffs Nonpareil. Thank you John Van Nostrand for such great work. The story highlights SILT's acquisition if our first farm, pictured here, just a few miles from downtown Council Bluffs. Interested in having SILT speak to your organization? We can address service clubs, churches, retirement communities, city leaders, community activists, political party gatherings of all stripes - just let us know. We'd be glad to line up a day or two in [...]

2015-10-06T21:18:57-05:00October 6th, 2015|News|0 Comments

SILT News Coast-to-Coast (almost)

SILT has been making the news across Iowa, nearly coast to coast!  Joe Driscoll, right, explains plans for the Young People's Farm to members of Omaha's City Sprouts. In mid-June, the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil covered SILT's "breaking new ground" party at the Loess Hills Young People's Farm, SILT's first acquisition ever with a nice feature including photos of this amazing farm. Kudos to the reporter tackling a complicated transaction. Now begins the 3-year campaign to raise the funds to make this farm a permanent part of the Council Bluffs/Omaha metro area foodshed! (Donations earmarked with "Young People's Farm" [...]

2024-01-09T08:50:56-06:00June 22nd, 2015|News|0 Comments
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