Articles About Tecumseh Land Trust :: Page 6

• Glen both source, subject for poets

  By Diane ChiddisterDecember 20, 2012

  

  This Friday, Dec. 14, the Yellow Springs community is invited to celebrate the Glen at “In the Spirit of the Glen: A night of nature-inspired poetry.” Eighteen poets will share their original nature-inspired work, and an open mic will also be available.

• TLT hosts two farm tours

  By Megan BachmanAugust 16, 2012

  

  The Tecumseh Land Trust will host a tour of two modern farming operations on Sunday.

• Village Council— TLT seeks preservation funds

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 5, 2012

  At their June 18 meeting, Village Council members heard an appeal from Tecumseh Land Trust, or TLT, asking that Village government help preserve Glen Helen.

• Green space funds waning

  By Megan BachmanMay 10, 2012

  A state program used to preserve area farmland for a decade has been halted, hindering a local land trust’s efforts to protect land from development.

• Pitstick land purchased for agricultural use

  By Lauren HeatonMay 3, 2012

  The 100 acres of farmland just north of the Center for Business and Education sold last month to the area farmers who had been farming it. While the local farm does not have a conservation easement on it, its use for agricultural purposes is likely to remain stable for now.

• Create the power to grow

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 3, 2011

  

  Local food has many meanings, but to Bob Jurick, having access to food locally is a social justice issue. People should be able to walk or drive a couple of blocks and buy fresh, healthy food at a reasonable cost.

• 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.