Yearly Archives: 2017

SILT Hosts Raj Patel and Friends

? SILT was honored to host international author and activist Raj Patel in July as he and his Malawian guests -farmer Annita Chitaya and nurse Esther Lupafya - traveled the U.S. talking to Americans about what climate change is doing to their country and about the relations and roles between men and women in farming. SILT connected the film crew with young corn and bean farmer Tyler Franzenburg, veteran vegetable farmer Denise O'Brien and managed livestock farmers Ed and Tricia Jackson. They dined on Denise's vegetables at Sweet Joy Shoppe in Atlantic and in Crescent on a [...]

2024-01-09T08:41:03-06:00June 14th, 2017|News|Comments Off on SILT Hosts Raj Patel and Friends
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SILT Founder Becomes Pesticide Action Network Chair

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Atlantic, Iowa - Pesticide Action Network (PAN) North America’s Board of Directors announced earlier today that farmer and community organizer Denise O’Brien will serve as PAN’s new Board President. O'Brien is one of 25 Iowa leaders who founded the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust and currently serves on its board. “Food and agriculture are critical to the well-being of our society and should be at the heart of a national conversation. PAN's commitment to serving farmers and agricultural communities in Iowa and across our country is reflected in its ability to build unity and grassroots power. Challenging corporate control and consolidation of [...]

2024-01-09T08:36:41-06:00June 4th, 2017|News|Comments Off on SILT Founder Becomes Pesticide Action Network Chair
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SILT Announces Farmer Vetting Policy

The Sustainable Iowa Land Trust announced today the publication of its much-anticipated SILT FARMER VETTING POLICY. For more than two years, young and disadvantaged farmers around Iowa have been asking what SILT will require to farm its farms. Applicants with no long-term access to land but who have experience and a business plan will make the first cut. The SILT Farmer Committee deliberated extensively over issues of equity and historic imbalance as well, and reviewers are instructed to be cognizant of those issues when reviewing applications. In the process of developing the policy, SILT queried land trusts across the country, including fellow members of the Land Trust Alliance and [...]

2023-12-05T14:41:00-06:00April 26th, 2017|News|0 Comments
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SILT in the News

SILT has been making waves across the country and across the "pond!"  In addition to our very own feature in Civil Eats last month, great stories in the Manchester Guardian and Rodale Institute's This Organic Life brought readers news of the innovative land access work we're doing here in Iowa. SILT  provides affordable land access to young farmers, gives retiring farmers and landowners peace of mind, advocates nature-friendly, neighborhood-friendly farming, increases our supply of healthy food, sets the trend among land trusts for focusing on farms, improves Iowa's water quality through private sector, voluntary programs, provides opportunity to Slow Money investors [...]

2017-04-18T16:39:53-05:00April 18th, 2017|News|0 Comments
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“Letters to a Young Farmer”

SILT proudly announces the arrival of a wonderful book called “Letters to a Young Farmer,” featuring three dozen esteemed writers, farmers, chefs, activists, and visionaries who address the highs and lows of farming life, as well as larger questions of how our food is produced and consumed. One of those visionaries is Iowa’s own Fred Kirschenmann. Watch for a possible author signing event in the future … A huge thank you to Stone Barns and Raj Patel for their assistance in making some copies available.   .

2017-04-18T12:21:05-05:00April 18th, 2017|News|0 Comments
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SILT on Civil Eats!

"The Sustainable Iowa Land Trust makes sustainability central to its work, helping young, sustainable, and diversified farmers grow in the land of corn and soy". Great to see SILT featured in this publication! Looking forward to seeing issues of land access and sustainable farming being an increasing part of the national conversation. https://civileats.com/2017/03/30/a-land-trust-asks-farmers-to-change-their-ways/

2024-01-09T08:54:45-06:00March 30th, 2017|News|0 Comments
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Farm matched – One farm still available

SILT has already matched two of its three farms, the latest in NE Iowa. Farmer Will Lorentzen with his wife Adrian White, a freelance writer, moved to SILT's third farm in Northeast Iowa last week. Last week, Will Lorentzen and his wife Adrian White moved the last of their belongings to Garber (bumping Garber's population up by more than 2 percent!) Will plans to farm by limiting his tillage footprint while still producing food for market, including shiitake mushrooms he is growing in the timber. STILL AVAILABLE: Perfect for a beginner -  Acreage 70 miles south of Des Moines. Timber, [...]

2023-07-21T10:04:58-05:00February 1st, 2017|News|0 Comments
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OOPS!

You waited just a bit too long!  Online sale no longer available. Stop by The Mill any time Friday night, March 30th with $25 in hand (credit cards accepted) and we'll invite you to join in on great music, great friends, Raygun T-shirts and door prizes... Not to mention the warm fuzzies of helping new farmers get on some affordable land around here!

2023-11-07T13:22:31-06:00January 29th, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on OOPS!
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