Lisa Lord, John Gobel, Mike King and Amanda Flake at McLeod Plantation. It can be argued that Beaufort County citizens care more than any other county in promoting conservation. From the Rural and Critical Lands Program to the County’s Comprehensive Plan, environmental and natural resource protection takes center stage in Beaufort County. The Rural and Critical Lands […]
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Partnering to Protect Farmland
Partnerships are an extremely important part of the way the Rural and Critical Program works to meet its goals and stretch dollars farther. One of the Program’s most important partnerships has been with the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). NRCS is an agency that provides technical and financial assistance to […]
Land Trust Rally: Conservationists Come Together
This weekend I had a tremendous opportunity to attend the National Land Conservation Conference, organized by the Land Trust Alliance (LTA) in Sacramento, CA. Known as “Rally”, this was an amazing meeting that brings together the conservation and land trust community to learn from each other’s work. I also had an opportunity to speak to […]
Penn Center Farm
Historic Penn Center owns a 92-acre farm on St. Helena Island. The Program purchased an easement on this property in 2011 to preserve the Island’s rural character,allow for the continuation of this property’s cultural and historic uses, and preserve educational opportunities for future farmers.