Programs
A sustainable place-based community needs to manage growth and development, ensure access to food and shelter, and protect ecosystems. Mix that with love and it’s called place-making. To continue in perpetuity, place-making must be regenerative. Land must be recycled, re-used and repurposed forever. A community land trust is a tool for managing that process. It enables people to balance land wealth in private control with community requirements for land. We provide education programs and technical support for communities seeking to own land for: