OUR MISSION
To create resilience and connection in the Kearsarge community through the intersection of land and housing
What is a community land trust?
The Community Land Trust (CLT) model gives a community a host of tools to engage with issues relating to land use, housing, and common space. The core ideas are simple: take land and buildings out of a speculative market and separate the ownership of the buildings from the land they sit on. The community land trust then works to provide inheritable and renewable leases for lands and buildings so the people who use those spaces gain stable access and long-term affordability.
Pilot Project: Foster Farm
This is an original homestead of the Joppa District of Warner in Abenaki territory. Now a remote corner of the woods, Foster Farm’s 70 acres of forest and wetland are surrounded by conservation lands within the Mink Hills. The farm is our first project, and after many years of neglect, is being revitalized by the community to make farmland, forests and housing more accessible.
