{"id":67550,"date":"2016-04-22T10:15:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T14:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67550"},"modified":"2016-04-21T20:45:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T00:45:39","slug":"farmland-protection-for-madison-county-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67550","title":{"rendered":"Farmland Protection for Madison County Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tractor\"<\/a>There are state funds available through the Farmland Protection Implementation Grants (FPIG) Program. This statewide program supports locally-led farmland protection efforts and this grant opportunity is offering $26 million in state assistance.<\/p>\n

Eligible applicants include:<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 counties with state-approved agricultural and farmland protection plans;<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 municipalities that have adopted a local farmland protection plan;<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 soil and water conservation districts; and<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 not-for-profit conservation organizations (referred to as \u201cland trusts\u201d).<\/p>\n

For this grant opportunity, only implementation projects that result in perpetual conservation easements are eligible for funding, regardless of whether that transaction is for the Purchase of Development Rights (PDR), or the Transfer of Development Rights (TDR), or the donation of the full value of development rights.<\/p>\n

For those of you who were unable to attend our Farmland Protection Meeting last week there may still be time! Below are the local land trusts that plan to submit applications for this grant. Many of our local land trusts have pre-applications that are the first step to the process. If you are interested in learning more about the program or submitting a pre-application contact the land trust that serves your area.<\/p>\n

New York Agricultural Land Trust<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amy Olney<\/p>\n

Farmland Conservation Program Coordinator<\/p>\n

Covers all of Madison County<\/p>\n

518-860-6115<\/a><\/p>\n

amyolney@earthlink.net<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nyalt.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Pre-Application Required- See attached<\/p>\n

Application Due April 29th<\/sup><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Cazenovia Area Community Development Association\/ Cazenovia Preservation Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lauren Lines<\/p>\n

Executive Director<\/p>\n

Covers Cazenovia School District<\/p>\n

315-655-7651<\/a><\/p>\n

lines@cacda.net<\/a><\/p>\n

www.cacda.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Pre-Application Required- See attached<\/p>\n

Application Due May 4th<\/sup><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Southern Madison Heritage Trust<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harvey L. Kliman, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

Board of Directors, President<\/p>\n

Covers townships of Brookfield, Eaton, Georgetown, Hamilton, Lebanon and Madison<\/p>\n

smht@smht.org<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.smht.org\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Individual Consultations Required for Application<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are state funds available through the Farmland Protection Implementation Grants (FPIG) Program. This statewide program supports locally-led farmland protection efforts and this grant opportunity is offering $26 million in state assistance. Eligible applicants include: \uf0b7 counties with state-approved agricultural and farmland protection plans; \uf0b7 municipalities that have adopted a local farmland protection plan; \uf0b7 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23679,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-local","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-hzw","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tractor.jpg?fit=1200%2C664&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}