This post is written by guest blogger and friend Kaitlin Slattery. Thank you Kaitlin for the terrific information! In the next year alone, hundreds of acres of urban farms and urban gardens in Detroit will be operational—and those numbers are only growing. In the next 10 years, a vision (see “A New Harvest for Detroit“) [...]
You can help us raise funds for a new website to more efficiently protect water quality, natural areas, wildlife and working farmland near you. Our new website will help planners preserve land in your community. The most important reason we are building a new website is to make it easier for you, the user, to [...]
The following is a guest post: April 22nd will mark the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day and with a new anniversary comes a new meaning of Earth Day. Started in 1970, Earth Day was originally conceived as a day in which the people of the world could come together and educate themselves about the needs [...]
Many communities mistakenly believe that large lot zoning will protect land, and preserve rural character and working farmland. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Zoning is temporary at best. LandChoices interviews David Skjaerlund, owner of Pleasant View Farms in Coleman, Michigan, in the video above. David discusses how an 80 acre farm that he rents [...]
The TMZ Farm in southeast Michigan is a terrific buffalo farm that offers an effective way to use land and support buffalo conservation. I first read about them in the wonderful article “Where buffalo roam” in the Detroit Free Press. It’s a great video, I hope you enjoy it. //
LandChoices interviews Jim and Sally, Michigan homeowners, about natural landscaping. Natural landscaping helps preserve our environment. Water conservation, wildlife conservation and land preservation are all supported by reducing your lawn footprint. Let parts of your property grow naturally through natural landscaping. You save money and time too! This interview is from “Walk with me through [...]
Andy Beckstoffer, the founder of Napa Valley’s Beckstoffer Vineyards, wanted to donate a piece of his land to conservation, but it didn’t make sense financially – his property would bring in much more if he sold it than left it to grow grapes forever, according to the article “Conservation law helps preserve properties” in the [...]
LandChoices interviews Tom Bailey about how conservation easements can reduce estate taxes on land you want to preserve and pass on to future generations. A conservation easement, a legal tool used to permanently protect land, can be used to lower or eliminate estate taxes on land. This is explained in this second in a series [...]
LandChoices interviews Tom Bailey, executive director of Little Traverse Conservancy. A conservation easement, a legal tool used to permanently protect land, is explained in this first in a series of videos on conservation easements. Stay tuned for more short videos in this series explaining how conservation easements preserve water quality and nature from LandChoices TV [...]
It’s happening again. Two more Boy Scout camps will be sold and developed. According to the article “Scouts to sell off two outdoor camps“, the Boy Scouts of America has decided to sell the camps to pay off debts. “National (Boy Scouts of America) has really pushed us the last five years to get rid [...]
