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Congratulations to Great Works Regional Land Trust in helping to conserve local farmland!

GWRLT’s purchase of a conservation easement on Deb-Tone Farm was joyfully completed on March 23rd. A small celebration at the North Berwick Town Hall after the closing gave way to a room full of supporters enjoying Ken Goodwin’s storytelling and sharing the success of the project.

 

n 2009, Great Works Regional Land Trust undertook the Deb-Tone Farm Conservation Project in order to help Ken and Marion Goodwin of North Berwick conserve the farm where they’ve lived since 1954.

 

Now the project is complete, thanks to supported by the Town of North Berwick (and the voters!), the Federal Farm and Ranchland Protection Program, the Thomas W. Haas fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Hussey Seating, Kennebunk Savings Bank, Fields Pond Foundation, Maine Farmland Trust, and many devoted donors and volunteers. The success of last year’s yard sale and bicycle ride may have started new traditions for the Trust.

 

Deb-Tone Farm spreads out along Route 4 North, looking off toward Cabbage Hill and the hills of Mt. Agamenticus, and is one of the few places along our roads with a panoramic view. A wooden sign says “Milking Shorthorns”.

 

As an active agricultural presence, the farm is an important gateway to North Berwick and is surrounded by other land with conservation potential. The purchase of a conservation easement on the farm transferred the development rights to GWRLT, so that, in the words of a Goodwin great-grandaughter, “no one can build houses on my Grampy’s farm.” [6] Read more…

For more information about Great Works Regional Land Trust, visit [7] www.gwrlt.org.