Working with our community, Jefferson Land Trust has protected more than 1,500 acres of agricultural land in Jefferson County, including 20 local farms. Over the weekend of September 16-17, we had a great time celebrating our amazing farms and farmers at Jefferson County Farm Tour 2023! Twenty farms participated in this year’s tour, including four […]
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We’re excited to share that Jefferson Land Trust was recently awarded a Soil Health Stewards Program grant from the American Farmland Trust’s National Agricultural Land Network (NALN). The $10,000 grant and associated training will help our stewardship staff better evaluate the soil conditions on farmland the Land Trust has helped protect, and better support the […]
Jefferson Land Trust is recruiting for two habitat enhancement AmeriCorps national service positions for full-time, 10-month engagements beginning in October 2023. The two habitat enhancement crew members will play an important role in the long-term conservation mission of Jefferson Land Trust by supporting the stewardship of lands in our care. The two crew members will […]
Jefferson County Farm Tour will return the weekend of September 16-17! Come celebrate local food, fiber, and farm-made products while exploring local farms and meeting the farmers who work hard to nourish our community. This year, fourteen local farms are participating (including a few of the 18 that you’ve helped protect forever with your support […]
We’re celebrating big news! Thanks to our amazing community and the support of public agencies, private foundations, and individual landowners, we’ve met the fundraising goal we set with the Quimper Wildlife Corridor Challenge to raise $3.14 million to protect up to 167 more acres of the corridor! This necklace of green provides essential wildlife habitat, […]
A new, 150-ft-long accessible trail from the parking area to the picnic shelter at Illahee Preserve is ready for your feet and your wheels! With funding from Jefferson County’s Accessible Community Advisory Committee, our hardworking field crew and community volunteers installed the trail to the picnic shelter and a van-accessible parking spot earlier this month. […]
Come with Nature Now host (and past Jefferson Land Trust Board member) Nan Evans to the forests of Chimacum Ridge as she talks with Jefferson Land Trust’s Stewardship Director Erik Kingfisher and his wife Jen Kingfisher about their family’s recent experiences living at the foot of the Ridge. In Episode #631, “A Family’s Experience on […]
In 2014, the Land Trust purchased a 15.7-acre agricultural property in the heart of Chimacum, right around the corner from the Chimacum Corner Farmstand. We called this property “Chimacum Commons,” and had a threefold vision for the project: 1) to protect this valuable farmland in Chimacum Valley’s agricultural corridor, 2) to conserve and restore the […]
The Jefferson Land Trust team is still basking in the glow of LandFest! On Thursday, July 13, more than 300 community members came together for a magical evening at Finnriver Farm & Cidery to celebrate the power of local land conservation — and raised more than $273,000 to support the farms, fish, and forests of […]
This summer, with the support of a $25,000 Cornell University grant and in collaboration with Kitsap County’s Great Peninsula Conservancy (GPC), we’re excited to launch a new monitoring study on our nature preserves in which we’ll be recording and analyzing birdsong. Mapping the presence of certain indicator bird species will help us determine whether our forest management […]
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