Your pastures will still have animals. Your orchards will still produce. Your soil will keep getting better.
You spent decades building soil, planting orchards, and caring for this land. A community land trust means it stays in agriculture forever — not a generation. Forever.
The average American farmer is 58 years old. Over 40% of all US farmland will transfer ownership in the next 15-20 years. Most retiring farmers don't have a succession plan. Their children moved to cities. The economics pushed the next generation away. And the buyers lining up aren't farmers.
The current options for retiring farmers are corporate ag consolidators who monocrop, developers who subdivide, or tech companies who pave. We're offering a fourth option: a community of families who will live on the land, farm it together, and protect it permanently through a nonprofit land trust.
Every farmer's situation is different. The community land trust model accommodates multiple structures — from a straight cash sale to a full charitable donation. All transactions go through licensed professionals and independent legal counsel.
Nobody wants to be first. Everybody wants to be second. We're looking for the farmer brave enough to be first.
Single buyers default on mortgages. Families change their minds. Corporations answer to shareholders. A 501(c)(3) community land trust is legally structured so that the land can never leave agricultural use. That's not a promise — it's an IRS designation.
We have a 10-year financial model with 1,100+ formulas and three scenarios. A layered capital stack that doesn't depend on any single funding source. Legal templates, governance documents, and a complete operational playbook — all open source. We're not asking you to trust a handshake. We're asking you to look at the spreadsheet.
Buying a working farm costs more per acre — but saves dramatically on infrastructure. The well is drilled. The roads are graded. The fencing is up. The barn exists. The soil is established. Our financial model shows a 29% total project cost reduction when acquiring improved farmland versus raw land.
The USDA Transition Incentives Program (TIP) pays retiring farmers up to 2 additional years of their existing CRP or ACEP contract payments if they sell or rent to beginning or socially disadvantaged farmers. That can mean $5K-$50K+ in additional income just for choosing us as your buyer. Contact your county FSA office to see if you qualify.
We're connected with (or actively connecting to) the organizations that support farmland transition across the country.
National farmland conservation and advocacy. Farmland Finder tool and regional offices.
National CLT technical assistance, legal templates, and funding connections.
Transition Incentives Program, beginning farmer loans, county-level support.
Connecting retiring farmers with beginning farmers in 30+ states.
Farm succession planning specialists with deep legal and financial expertise.
Hold conservation easements and have existing relationships with farmland owners.
Even if selling to us isn't right for your situation, we'd value your wisdom. Maybe you know a farmer who's thinking about this. Maybe you have advice. Maybe you just want to tell us we're crazy. We want to hear it all.
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