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New York Cuts Farmland Protection Funding in Half
The Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) is New York’s primary source of dedicated environmental funding and helps protect the state’s working farms, water, air and environmental and public health. The...
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New York State Food Policy Council Considers Farmland Protection
In New York State a farm is lost to development every three days. This startling reality has helped make the Empire State home to three of the Top Twenty Most Threatened Farming Regions in America....
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New York: The Year in Review
The past year has been full of challenges, but thanks to the hard work of our supporters we leave 2010 behind in a better position than ever before to protect our state’s precious farmland. Last year,...
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Farm and Food News Update 1/21/11
Walmart Aims to Make Fresh Produce More Affordable By Reducing Transportation Costs The giant retailer announced Thursday that it would aim to bring down the price of fresh produce by making serious...
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New Resource Helps Communities Save Local Farms
New York State is losing farmland fast. The state has lost almost half a million acres of farmland to subdivisions, strip malls and scattered development in the last 25 years. In addition, New York’s...
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Rallying Around Our Farms and Food
National attention to concerns about food security, access to locally grown foods, and public health issues has never been higher and this focus is bringing together a diverse group of supporters with...
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Earth Day Edition of Farm and Food News 4/22/11
Rural Development honors water quality management this Earth Day USDA Rural Development is celebrating Earth Day by announcing projects to improve water quality and benefit rural residents. As part of...
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Farm and Food News 10/7/11
Devoted Pennsylvania farmer honored American Farmland Trust honored Bob Ambrose with the Pennsylvania Farmland Preservation Local Hero Award this week. Bob and his wife run a 130-acre farm and are...
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No Farms, No Food® Rally 2012: Better than Ever!
Farm and food advocates from around New York State laid solid groundwork for legislative funding to protect farmland, and sustain the business of agriculture, at American Farmland Trust’s third annual...
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Spreading the No Farms No Food® Message in New York: An Interview with David...
What brought you to American Farmland Trust and what has kept you here for 13 years? I grew up in a very rural part of Upstate New York in a community that was dominated by dairy farms and apple trees....
View ArticleFarmland and Food: Re-Connected
There was a time when talking about the actual growing of food as a reason to protect farmland from sprawling development garnered little attention. To be sure it was always on the list, but values...
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