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About the White River Land Collaborative

The White River Land Collaborative is a farmer and Abenaki-led collaborative dedicated to enabling affordable and sustainable access to farmland and adjacent natural areas for the next generation of farmers and land stewards.

Our work strives to ensure health, wellbeing, economic viability and a secure future for the people who are in direct relationship with the land and at the center of our local food systems.

Our first project aims to write a new chapter for a historic dairy farm in Tunbridge, Vermont.

With support from the community, we are working to:

  • ​Secure the farmland and infrastructure for emerging farmers, including Flying Dog Farm, which has been raising organic livestock and hosting popular community events on the farm since 2021.
     

  • Secure adjacent natural areas of special interest on which an Abenaki-led forest management team is integrating indigenous knowledge to improve the health and resilience of the land and ecosystems.

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To achieve these goals and expand our work beyond Tunbridge, we are developing new models for land ownership, conservation, indigenous inclusion and traditional land care practices. These new models aim to make land available and affordable for emerging farmers and Indigenous land stewards while also addressing the limitations of conventional land conservation. 

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We invite you to join us in building an affordable and secure future that honors Vermont’s farmers, land stewards and the lands that they nourish and that, in turn, nourish us all.

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