Connecticut Farmland Trust

The Connecticut Farmland Trust was founded in 2002 with a very simple mission: protect as much of Connecticut’s vanishing farmland as possible, before it’s all gone. Now Accredited with a full-time staff of four, CFT has saved 27 family farms and over 2,200 acres of prime farmland.

Working with our partners — Connecticut Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource Conservation Service, and many private foundations and individuals — we are able to leverage public and private money to acquire the development rights, mostly on small, family farms that form the backbone of Connecticut’s agricultural future.

When CFT protects a farm, that land becomes a “forever farm.” The land will only be able to be used for agriculture, forever. It is a promise of permanence, or, as conservationists say, of perpetuity. We don’t dictate how a farmer can farm, nor whether they can sell the land, or who to. What we promise, however, is that those important soils — that land — will always be available for growing food.