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(Photo courtesy of Pete Ingraham.)

THANK YOU!

Update as of January 6, 2012:  A huge thank you to hundreds of residents who made gifts to support the conservation of Batchelder Farm!  With these gifts, coupled with grants from the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) and the Fields Pond Foundation, and support from Nextera Energy, we have raised the necessary funds needed to protect this iconic farmland!

In their own words, landowners and community leaders describe why conservation matters

What do a vintner, conservation commissioner, and tree farmer have in common? They’ve all partnered with the Southeast Land Trust to permanently conserve critical open spaces and have shared their story through videos just released on the web. The videos speak about land conservation through the voice of local farmer Frank Reinhold of Lee’s Flag Hill Winery, community leader Alison Watts of Newfields, and tree farmer Jerry Langdon of Epping.  To view a video, just click on the links below!

• Tax Incentives Help Conservation Make Economic Sense explains the federal income tax incentives that ultimately convinced tree farmer Jerry Langdon and his wife Pat, a local realtor, to conserve their Tree Farm on busy Route 125 in Epping.

• Community Conservation Partnerships outlines how the Southeast Land Trust helped the Town of Newfields conserve the 316-acre Piscassic Greenway.  Local resident and conservation commissioner Alison Watts explains “I’ve also found the Southeast Land Trust are really able to help us understand what types of conservation projects will work, help us identify lands that are important, and help us work through the process of getting the Town to understand and approve of a conservation easement.”

• Protecting Farmland for the Future details how the sale of the conservation easement on Flag Hill Winery achieved personal and business goals for farmer and vintner Frank Reinhold.  Reinhold explains that “The money from the conservation easement was a critical part of my expansion, because we were Flag Hill Winery.  The amount of money received was directly put into the distillery and we became Flag Hill Distillery, the state’s only distillery.”