A Pecha Kucha style presentation on preserving Brant County farmland. Delivered by Ella Haley and Richard Tunstall at Paris Lectures on October 18, 2016.

1. Creative Ways to Protect Brant County's
Farmland and Natural Heritage
ELLA HALEY
RICHARD TUNSTALL
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2. Protecting Brant County’s Watershed,
Farmland & Natural Heritage
Richard Tunstall and Ella Haley
Langford Conservancy
ella@lconserv.org
Lconserv.org, 519-647-0307

4. Two greatest barriers
to new farmers are lack of
access to land and capital.
1 National Young Farmers Coalition Report, 2015

5. The Ontario Greenbelt – 10 Year Review

6. The Great Canadian Landgrab

7. No Farmland =
No Local Farmers =
No Local Food

9. Sprawl – Brant/Brantford Boundary Deal

10. Brant County: 1980 Protected Agricultural Ribbon

11. 1) If the Minister Approves the Brant/
Brantford Boundary Deal – Appeal
2) Grow the Greenbelt
3) Conservation Easements
4) Land Trust buys land
Creative Solutions:

12. 1) Challenge the Brant/Brantford
Boundary Deal

13. 2) Create a Grand River Watershed Greenbelt

14. 3) Protect Land with Conservation Easements

15. 4) Purchase by Land Trust and Lease to New Farmers

16. SOLUTION
Preserve farmland and provide
new small-scale organic farmers
access to affordable farmland

17. Langford Conservancy

19. Our Aim:
• To initially sell community bonds to raise
funds to buy a farm
• Organic farmers will be able to hold
long-term leases on protected land
Community Bond Campaign

20. Timeline & Milestones
Sept 2016
March 2017
✓ Complete Fundraising
✓ Recruit New Organic Farmers
✓ Make the offer on the Farm
✓ Complete Renovation for 5 Housing Units
✓ Complete building the pond for irrigation
✓ Review the applications for New Organic Farmers
✓ First round of New Farmers start farming (no housing req)
Sept 2017 ✓ Second round of New organic farmers move-in & start farming
✓ Ultimate vision: knowledge sharing to scale the project elsewhere

21. Contact ella@lconserv.org
or richard@lconserv.org
519-647-0307
lconserv.org
For More Information

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Langford Conservancy
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