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Growing concerns about access to locally grown foods, public health issues and the conservation of natural resources recently converged in New York City at this year’s TEDx Manhattan. Among a diverse group including farmers, chefs, educators, environmentalists and local food advocates, I joined in for a day of idea sharing around the concept of “Changing Continue reading Ideas on Farms and Food Come to the Big Apple The play-by-play of Washington budget negotiations is likely to run until the final buzzer. As a result, the full details of how our nation will address the debt level remain uncertain as August 2 (the deadline for Congress to raise the debt ceiling) looms closer. With nothing final, what can we expect? Agriculture will have to take Continue reading Conservation: An Investment for the Future American Farmland Trust and other national conservation organizations heralded the recent signing by President Obama of the omnibus tax package and its provision to extend the enhanced conservation easement tax deduction for the 2010 and 2011 tax years. Originally included in the 2006 Pension Protection Act, the enhanced conservation easement tax deduction allows qualified farmers Continue reading Tax Package Will Promote the Protection of Working Farms and Ranches Farmers, food advocates, environmentalists and local officials came together in force for the No Farms No Food Rally at the State Capitol in Albany March 15th. Over 140 individual participants and 70 supporting organizations joined forces and met with more than 100 state legislators. We spoke out for state programs that: help protect farms in Continue reading In New York, A Call to Farms! Before I came to American Farmland Trust, I was the Counselor to the Administrator for Agricultural Policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). One of my primary efforts at EPA was to start the first-ever agricultural advisory committee for the agency so that they might advise the agency on how environmental policy issues affect Continue reading Farmers and Environmentalists: Working Toward Mutual Understanding The U.S. population is projected to double over the next 50 years. Much of that increase will be concentrated in a few dynamic regions of the country that will also have to contend with the environmental consequences of growth: air and water pollution, flooding, depletion of surface and ground water, loss or damage to wetlands, Continue reading Conservation Markets for Farms: Economically Sound Environmental Protection |
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