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Des Moines Business Record Features SILT Campaign

Circling Our Cities with food farms can help stop hunger in Iowa. Read the article here. Photo caption: Jordan and Whitney Clasen are seen in a barn built on land they purchased near Earlham where they will begin planting produce on their farm, Grade A Gardens, which grows fresh fruits and vegetables they sell as part of a Community Supported Agriculture system, at farmers markets and to local restaurants. Photo by Duane Tinkey Sustainable Iowa Land Trust launches campaign to create food farms where they are needed most BY MICHAEL CRUMB Growing food closest to the people who need [...]

2023-07-21T09:25:48-05:00March 14th, 2022|News|0 Comments
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Now is Our Time

April 2020 We hope you and yours are staying safe. We thank the healthcare, service and manufacturing workers who go out into this dangerous world every day, risking their lives to keep us home and fed. And we mourn those we've lost to this insidious virus and our overburdened healthcare system. Now is our time to rise above our fear and be the people we aspire to be. For me, that means generous, grateful and motivated to build a better world. Keeping SILT going strong is how I do it, because I know this work is a permanent solution that will [...]

2024-09-25T10:15:16-05:00April 22nd, 2020|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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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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SILT’s friends and allies spread the word

Farmers, leaders, friends converge to tell media why SILT matters Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 28, 2015: Television, newspapers and radio along with supporters filled the space at Gateway Market this  morning to hear about the new Sustainable Iowa Land Trust created to protect land to grow healthy food. SILT President Suzan Erem and West Des Moines City Manager Tom Hadden show a map of SILT projects already begun around the state. They heard from local farmers Larry Cleverly and Jason Clasen, West Des Moines City Manager Tom Hadden, developer Joe Pietruszynski of Hubbell Realty Co., Mary Ellen Miller, SILT's first farmland donor, [...]

2023-07-21T10:30:58-05:00January 21st, 2015|News|0 Comments
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