Maine Farmland Trust
Contact Information
Main Contact
- John Piotti, Executive Director
- 97 Main Street
- Belfast, ME 04915
- Phone: 338-6575 | FAX: 338-6024
- Email: jpiotti@mainefarmlandtrust.org
- Bill Bell, President
- 11 Osprey Avenue
- Saco 04072
- Phone: 752-1392
- Email: feedalliance@gwi.net
Alternate Contact
MLTN Member
Mission Statement
To permanently preserve and protect Maine's agricultural land; to assist landowners, land trusts, and municipal and state agencies in identifying and protecting agricultural land; and to make those agricultural lands available for farmers in the future.
Region
Statewide
Quick Facts
- Number of Staff: 7
- Membership: 2286
- Annual Meeting: September
- Newsletter: Maine Farmland Trust News, published 2 time(s) annually.
- Acres owned: 886
- Number of Parcels: 4
- Acres under Conservation Easement: 8810
- Number of Parcels: 60
- Founded: 1999
- Donated Easements: We work with farmland owners who wish to protect their land by donating easements.
- Purchased Easements: We assist farmland owners who are interested in selling easements under the Land for Maine's Future program (LMF) or the federal Farmland and Ranchland Protection Program (FRPP).
- FarmLink: We connect prospective farmers seeking farmland with retiring farmers and other farmland owners who wish to see their agricultural lands remain active.
- Buy/Protect/Sell: We purchase vulnerable farms, preserve them and then re-sell them to interested farmers (at their "farmland value", not "development value").
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