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• Semler dairy preserved in Jacoby

  By Megan BachmanAugust 5, 2011

  

  The 171-acre Semler farm on Snypp Road is the first land in the Jacoby Creek watershed preserved with Village funds and one of four remaining dairies in Greene County.

• Forests for local food

  By Megan BachmanApril 18, 2011

  

  Mark Shepard told a crowd of 120 villagers to transform our farm fields into forests for more local food.

• Land trust garners praise

  By Megan BachmanNovember 25, 2010

  

  The director of the largest federal funding source for farmland preservation stopped in Yellow Springs last week to visit Ohio’s top recipient of federal funding, the Tecumseh Land Trust, which he praised as one of the nation’s top land trusts.

• TLT’s Magaw honored as Ambassador of Ohio Agriculture

  By Megan BachmanNovember 24, 2010

  

  At the Ohio Annual Farmland Preservation Summit last Thursday, Nov. 18, the Tecumseh Land Trust’s executive director Krista Magaw was named an Ambassador of Ohio Agriculture for her nearly 10 years as director of one of the state’s most successful land trusts.

• Land trust supporters bid to save land

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 20, 2010

  

  At the sixth annual Tecumseh Land Trust auction on Friday night, more than 200 farmland supporters bid on donated products and services, with all proceeds going to support the land trust.

• NPR’s Zickefoose to lead nature workshop

  By Lauren ShowsJune 22, 2010

  

  Author and NPR commentator Julie Zickefoose will give a workshop at the Marianist Environmental Education Center on July 9, as part of Tecumseh Land Trust’s 20th anniversary celebration, “Stories of People and the Land.”

• Telling stories to save the land

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 8, 2010

  Eric Wolf remembers the moment he made an emotional commitment to supporting farmland preservation. He had returned to Shelter Island outside New York City, the place where as a child he went to hunt scallops and wonder at the expanse of cornfields.

• TLT, AACW join for roots fest

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 25, 2010

  

  Every year the local blues fest reminds community members about the roots of contemporary popular music. If gospel can spawn the blues, jazz, reggae and rap, then what can the art of the local community tell us about our own history and roots? African American Cross-Cultural Works and the Tecumseh Land Trust aim to find out when they put on the first ever Roots Fest on Saturday, March 27, at Bryan Community Center. It will be an evening of performances in which villagers use the arts to connect to and share their own stories.

• Green space funds go to Jacoby farm preservation

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 4, 2010

  At their March 1 meeting, members of Yellow Springs Village Council unanimously approved contributing to the preservation of two farm properties, one of which includes the headwaters of the Jacoby Creek and is the first farm preserved within the Jacoby greenbelt.

• Council moves towards funding Jacoby easement

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 25, 2010

  At its Feb. 16 meeting, Village Council took a first step toward using Village greenbelt funds to conserve two pieces of farmland considered critical by Tecumseh Land Trust, or TLT. One of the properties is the first piece of the Jacoby greenbelt to be officially preserved as farmland.