S02e03 – Barry Lonik – Buy-Protect-Sell + Leadership = Saving the Aprill Farm
Buy-Protect-Sell + Leadership =
Saving the Aprill Farm
Episode 3:
Barry Lonik –
Treemore Ecology and
Land Services
Saving the Aprill Farm
When an exceptional piece of farmland became available in Scio Township, Michigan, longtime land conservation specialist Barry Lonik and township officials found a way to protect it through an innovative “Buy-Protect-Sell” transaction strategy. Barry details the synchronicities and forward-thinking community leadership that made it possible.
The Aprill Farm
About Barry Lonik
Barry Lonik has led the effort to establish the model farmland and natural area protection programs in Washtenaw County for nearly 30 years, some of the most successful in Michigan. Barry started the Legacy Land Conservancy and served as its first executive director for six and a half years, developing it into an effective nonprofit organization.
About Barry Lonik
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Episode 3 Transcript
USDA ACEP Agricultural Conservation Easement Program
USDA RCPP Resource Conservation Partnership Program
MDARD – Agriculture Preservation Fund
City of Ann Arbor Green Belt Millage
Washtenaw County Conservation District
Scio Twp Land Preservation Commission
Scio Twp Preserved Properties
Scio Twp Protected Lands (map)
Tantre Farm
Brines Farm
Nature and Nurture Seeds
Green Things Farm Collective
Joseph Fazio, attorney from the firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock, and Stone
Buy Protect Sell Webinar Series – American Farmland Trust
National Young Farmers Coalition – Land Link Directory
Land for Good – Farm Link Programs
Finding Land to Farm
National Young Farmers Coalition – A Path to Conservation and Farm Viability: Purchase of Agricultural Conservation Easements.
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