Keeping Farms Farms: A Landowner’s Legacy and a Farmer’s Future
While working for SILT over the past seven years, I have had the pleasure of working on deeply meaningful projects that will have an impact on Iowa and its community for decades to come. SILT’s mission is long term. We are working with landowners now to provide land access opportunities for food farmers in the future. It has been inspiring to meet and work with landowners who are willing to think into the future and try something that goes against the grain of usual farm succession in our country. Landowners with the means to donate their land to SILT [...]