Farm owners can receive tax benefits by entering into farmland easement agreements with charitable land trusts to protect their farms from urban sprawl and other types of non-agricultural development. Such benefits are intended to make farmland preservation achievable...
We have prepared this document to help land trusts manage conservation easement agreements to minimize the potential for conflicts and to respond effectively if a compliance problem arises. It is one part of a broader strategy to create a collective defense approach...
The Ontario Farmland Trust works directly with farmers and other farm owners to help them protect their land from non-agricultural development, such as urban sprawl and the mining of aggregates. By partnering with the Farmland Trust, farm families have the assurance...
All land and easement projects are individually planned so that the property’s important conservation values are identified and protected, the project furthers the land trust’s mission and goals, and the project reflects the capacity of the organization to meet future...
