About Us
photo by Tom Steele
History
The Peconic Land Trust, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was established in 1983 by John v.H. Halsey and a small group of local residents to ensure the protection of Long Island’s working farms, natural lands, and heritage. Since 1983, the Trust has worked diligently with landowners, communities, municipalities, and partner organizations to protect over 13,000 acres of land, conserving more working farms on Long Island than any other private conservation organization, and securing millions of dollars from the public and private sector for land protection.
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Incorporation of the Trust
On August 1, the incorporation of the Trust by founder John v.H. Halsey and a small group of neighbors, Terry Stubelek, Richard W. King, Roy L. Wines, Jr. and Edward Sharretts. By December 31, changes to NYS Conservation Easement law remove the “impertinent requirement” allowing land trusts to acquire conservation easements on properties not directly adjacent to properties they own. This opened up a whole new level of conservation opportunities.
Phillips Pond Preserve is Established
First project completed: Phillips Pond Preserve, approximately 6 acres donated by Burton Brous between 1984 and 1986, situated between Phillips Pond and the Atlantic Ocean in the Village of Southampton. This ecologically sensitive area is an important gateway to the ocean in the village.

First Challenge Fundraising Initiative Met
With donations from 34 members of the community, the Trust met its first Challenge fundraising initiative – raising $10,000 to meet an anonymous match. Since then, thousands of individuals have donated to the Trust’s Annual Fund, making our conservation work possible. This was also the year the scallop shell logo was first used, designed by Linda Sherman, Roger Smith and Lee Foster.

The First Peconinic
The first Peconinic – our annual thank you party for supporters – was held at the Foster Farm in Sagaponack. Since then, the Peconinic has been held in every East End town, in celebration of our rural heritage.
Conservation of Our First 100 Acres
By this time, with the support of landowners, municipalities and the community, the Trust had conserved its first 100 acres, including farmland protection in Southampton and Southold, and the Village Green in Southold hamlet.

Adoption of the Land Trust Alliance’s Professional Standards
The Trust adopts the Land Trust Alliance’s professional standards and practices for land conservation.
First Project in Smithtown
Louisa Lawrence donated a 45-acre conservation easement on her property in Smithtown. Since then, we’ve worked with four families in the community protecting more than 80 acres of wetlands, woodland, pasture and historic façade easements and have established an on-going relationship with Avalon Park and Preserve.

Quail Hill Farm is Established
Quail Hill Farm is established in Amagansett on land donated by Deborah Ann Light. One of the original CSA farms in the US, the farmland at Quail Hill, along with the adjoining Light Preserve, is now part of the Trust’s Farms for the Future Initiative (see 2010).

Reel Point Preserve is Established
Reel Point Preserve, an iconic peninsula at the end of Ram Island, is donated by the Stern family to the Trust and becomes our first project on Shelter Island. Through 2013, the Trust has worked with landowners, the Town, County and State to conserve approximately 350 acres on Shelter Island, most recently with our work with the heir to Sylvester Manor, Eben Ostby (see 2011-2012).

Downs Farm Preserve is Established
Working with the Baxter family, Suffolk County, Southold Town and conservation buyer Russ McCall, we conserved over 100 acres in Cutchogue, known as the Downs Farm Preserve, which includes the Fort Corchaug historic site (50+ acres owned by the Town), and McCall Vineyard and Ranch (80+ acres owned by McCall, with a conservation easement donated to the Trust). In 1999, the Trust worked again with Russ McCall and the Ginsburg family to conserve an additional 54+ acres, most of which was purchased by McCall who donated a conservation easement on that parcel. 3.5 acres of that parcel, including a farmhouse and historic barn, were retained by the Trust and today is our North Fork Stewardship Center. Restoration of the 18th century barn is on-going.

The Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund is Enacted
The Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund was enacted by public referendum in the five East End Towns of Long Island: Riverhead, Southampton, Southold, Shelter Island and East Hampton. The Peconic Land Trust does not collect or distribute the funds from the 2% real estate transfer tax. The Peconic Land Trust raises its operating budget through charitable gifts and payment for professional services. The 2% real estate transfer fee paid by buyers for the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund goes directly to the Town in which the property purchased is located. The CPF has been renewed three times through voter referendum and currently is in effect through 2050.

Trust Receives Largest Conservation Easement from Louis Bacon
Louis Bacon donates a conservation easement on 540 acres on Cow Neck to the Trust; the organization’s largest single conservation easement to date. The property, acquired by Mr. Bacon from the Salm Family, includes undisturbed tidal and freshwater wetlands, woodlands, agricultural and equestrian lands, and meadows.

Fund for the Environment is Established
The Trust’s Fund for the Environment was established with a $2 million challenge grant from the Peter J. Sharp Foundation. The Fund is a source of capital that serves as a revolving fund, providing interim financing for the Trust’s acquisitions of land, conservation easements, or other environmental assets. To date, the Trust has used the Fund on 17 projects, the first of which was Dam Pond. Over the years, the Fund has grown to nearly $5 million through donations by other individuals and foundations for this express purpose.

Wilson’s Grove Preserve Donated by Marillyn Wilson
Marillyn B. Wilson donated a conservation easement on a 22.7-acre parcel of woodland in the Northwest Woods section of East Hampton, on the Accabonac Trail, to the Trust. The site contains locally rare woodland of majestic white pine and oak. In 2008, Ms. Wilson donated the conserved property to the Trust, plus an additional 23 acres, to create Wilson’s Grove, which includes her architecturally distinctive home and woodland gardens
Through Farms and Fields is Launched
Through Farms and Fields, the Trust’s annual fundraiser was launched – with a farm tour and luncheon held in the Galban Barn in Sagaponack. Over the ensuing years – the event, a country “luncheon” or “supper” has been at iconic properties, including the Wesnofske’s historic barn in Bridgehampton (pictured), the Salm’s Port of Missing Men in North Sea and the Halsey’s Whitecap Farm on Mecox Bay.

Connections Launches
With initial funding from the R.K. Mellon Family Foundation, the Trust’s Connections educational programs, designed to connect the community with the land, is launched. To date, thousands of people of all ages have participated in programs from the tip of the forks to NYC. This is also the year the Trust established the partnership with the artists of Plein Air Peconic.

“True East” is Published
Seeking to focus the public’s attention on the serious issues threatening local agriculture, and working with landscape designer and photographer Wendy Chamberlin, the Trust publishes “True East”, featuring her photos and stories of four local farming families: Corwith, Foster, Halsey and Zaluski. Taken over the course of one year, the books showcase their commitment to agriculture on Long Island’s East End.
New Suffolk Waterfront is Acquired
New Suffolk Waterfront is acquired by the Trust, a 3.4 acre property threatened by development, and held until the community is able to raise the funds to purchase it from the Trust in December 2010. Today, the site is owned by the New Suffolk Waterfront Fund, and is the setting for numerous events and a community garden, continuing its future as a community resource.
Charnews Farm and Bridge Gardens are Acquired
The Trust acquires Charnews Farm, and through a community-led fundraising campaign, transforms the property into the Agricultural Center, leasing farmland to new and established farmers (see Farms for the Future Initiative, 2010). The Ag Center is also the site of our Community Garden, which in 2013 has about 100 families and individuals participating, as well as our Learning Garden which offers programs to local school groups.
Also in 2008, Harry Neyens and Jim Kilpatrick donate Bridge Gardens, a five-acre garden in the heart of Bridgehampton, open to the public from April through October. In 2012, Bridge Gardens adopted a mission to serve as a multi-purpose, multi-disciplinary outdoor classroom, demonstration garden and community resource - and tied the Gardens purpose more closely to the mission of the Peconic Land Trust.

Anderegg and McQuade Preserves are Established
The Trust receives donations of two significant properties along Long Island Sound in Riverhead: the Anderegg and McQuade Preserves. These new preserves add a total of 83.5 acres to an assemblage of over 250 acres of beach, bluff, farmland, meadow, and woodland, conserved with the cooperation of numerous landowners, Riverhead Town, Suffolk County, donors and the Trust.

Farms for the Future Initiative is Formalized and Hopping Farmland is Acquired
In 2010, the Farms for the Future Initiative was formalized. This program works with established and new farmers to provide access to affordable farmland – through leases, incubator programs and sales.The program, which is also designed to promote the diversity of farming operations, has a focus on encouraging food production on Long Island.
Also in 2010, the Hopping Farmland, 7.6 acres of farmland in Sagaponack, home to the Pike Farm Stand, is acquired by the Trust. Through a community fundraising effort, and the sale of development rights to Suffolk County and Southampton Town, the Trust conserves the farmland, and in 2011, after the implementation of innovative overlay easements resells the property to Jim and Jennifer Pike at an affordable farmland price. The tools employed in this complex farmland conservation effort became the basis for the Trust’s Farms for the Future Initiative, which was formalized in 2010.

Sylvester Manor Conserved
Working with Eben Fiske Ostby, owner of Sylvester Manor, along with the non-profit Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, the Trust helps to conserve 48 acres of this 243-acre estate on Shelter Island. The Trust continues its conservation planning work with the family and the Educational Farm, supporting the restoration of the land to active agriculture at this historic site.
Oysterponds Historical Society and ExxonMobil
Working with the Oysterponds Historical Society (OHS), the Trust purchases conservation easements on 13 acres given to OHS through a bequest by Sonja Stein, continuing our conservation work on the lands around Orient’s Dam Pond, which began back in 1989. Today, over 118 acres of fragile wetlands, beachfront, and woodlands surrounding Dam Pond have been conserved through public/private partnerships fostered by the Trust.
Also in 2012, the Trust works with ExxonMobil on the conservation of two former terminal properties on Long Island: an 8-acre site on Shore Road in Cold Spring Harbor and a 2-acre site on Shelter Island Sound in the Village of Greenport. In partnership with the North Shore Land Alliance, Southold Town and Greenport Village, these donations by ExxonMobil represent the first significant donations of surplus property for conservation purposes on Long Island by the Corporation.
Farmland in Bridgehamton and Sagaponack Protected
On July 25, 2013, with the assistance of the South Fork Land Foundation, the Trust acquired 20 acres of productive agricultural land on Route 27 in Bridgehampton. Known as Hayground Farms, the land will be incorporated into the Trust’s Farms for the Future Initiative and will continue to be leased to a local farmer.
In December of 2013, The Galban Family donated an overlay easement with affirmative and affordable farming covenants of 33.4 acres in Sagaponack to the Trust. This donation ensures that the land will remain in active agricultural production.

Water Mill Farmland Protected for Food Farming
The Trust purchased 33 acres of prime agricultural land in the hamlet of Water Mill from the estate of Charlotte Danilevsky. The Town of Southampton was an important partner in this farmland conservation, purchasing the development rights on the property from the Trust, including new additional restrictions that will ensure the land is affordable and accessible to food production farmers at its true agricultural value. The farmland, through the RFP process, was sold to two local farmers: Hank Kraszewski and Jim and Jennifer Pike.
Edwards Farmland and Woodlands Are Protected
Peconic Land Trust acquires 20.9 acres of woodland and wetlands from the Edwards family in Orient.

Agricultural Capital Equipment Grant Program Celebrates Year 1
In the summer of 2015, the Peconic Land Trust was selected to administer a grant by New York’s Empire State Development of $1 million which would provide financial assistance towards the purchase of infrastructure and capital equipment for beginning, transitioning and expanding farm operations. In the first year, just over $300,000 of grant funds had been pre-approved to 20 farm operations. By the end of 2017, over $800,000 in funds have been pre-approved to 36 operations. Funds have been used to reimburse up to 20% of the cost to purchase equipment ranging from tractors and boats to shelves and oyster baskets. Additionally, irrigation systems and deer fences have been installed and barns and farm stands have been upgraded or expanded.
Suffolk County Farmland Preservation Program Challenged, but Prevails
In September 2016, the New York State Supreme Court ruled against Suffolk County in a decision that bared its Farmland Preservation Program from permitting agricultural structures, including barns, deer fencing and irrigation systems on farmland that the County had protected for bona fide agricultural production over the past 40 years. This decision created confusion and uncertainty by redefining the program created to assure the future of agriculture as a critical component of our local economy into an open space program that prohibits structures of any kind “as the existing openness, natural condition, and present state of use of any purchased PDR property is diminished, if not extinguished, by the erection or installation of the structures, uses, and activities, agricultural and non-agricultural…” The Trust, in 2017, filed an amicus brief along with many of our partners in agriculture, and in 2018 the New York State Appellate Division rejected the State Supreme Court decision — meaning that once again, farmers are permitted to build agricultural structures and improvements on their protected land. This is a positive outcome for Long Island agriculture.

Regional Drinking Water Protection Program Launches
In December 2017, the Trust was awarded the first of three grants in support of the acquisition of land for source water protection from New York State. The grant will cover up to 75 percent of the acquisition costs of the land, with the Trust working with donors and other sources to cover the remaining 25 percent. The original grant was for land in the Town of Brookhaven. Since that time, the Trust has received subsequent grants from the State for the acquisition of land in the Towns of Shelter Island, Southold, Riverhead and East Hampton. As of early 2020, the Trust has acquired three properties under this grant program, the first two in Brookhaven, and the third on Shelter Island.
Historic Case House Moves to Cleo’s Corner
On a clear and brisk January morning, the historic Lieutenant Moses Case House began its move to Cleo’s Corner at Route 48 and Hortons Lane in Southold. Over four days this winter and early spring, the 120,000 pound house moved across two frozen fields and Young’s Avenue. The final move, across Hortons Lane and onto its new foundation, happened on April 1! Cleo’s Corner was chosen because it is part of the Trust’s Farms for the Future Initiative and includes a 5-acre farm field. Combining an historic home with preserved farmland to create a farmstead — and then to lease the house and the farmland to a local farmer is the plan. The house is currently undergoing renovation — and the farmland is leased to a local farmer.
Boards and Councils
Our Board’s dedication to conserving Long Island’s working farms, natural lands and heritage is unmatched. The Trust’s Board of Directors is responsible for establishing the organization’s mission and setting policies to carry out the mission, and, as required by law, the oversight of the organization’s finances and operations. The Board works closely with its professional staff to determine and advance the Trust's strategic goals, as we work on behalf of our communities to protect the places we know and love. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Vice President Julie Zaykowski at 631-283-3195.
Edward Krug
Chair
Marcia Bystryn
Vice Chair
John v.H. Halsey
President
Nancy Gilbert
Treasurer
John E. Larkin
Assistant Treasurer
Nora J. Catlin
Secretary
Carol M. Ahlers
Harriet H. Dresher
Ann G. ffolliott
Thomas A. Isles
James T. MacGregor
John S. Norbeck
Jennifer B. Pike
Thomas B. Williams
Board Chair Emeritus
Peconic Legacy Circle members have let us know their intention to remember the Trust in their estate planning. Legacy gifts are among the most meaningful ways to ensure that Long Island’s beautiful beaches, clean water, working farms, majestic woodland and pristine wetlands will be protected for generations to come.
We thank all our Peconic Legacy Circle members for joining us in looking towards a future that values the working farms, natural lands and the heritage we all share. If you are interested in learning more or supporting the Trust, please contact Director of Development, Amanda Abraham, at 631-283-3195 or AAbraham@PeconicLandTrust.org.
- Carol Mulvihill Ahlers and Ronald E. Ahlers
- Maddy Beckwith
- Glorian Berk
- Thomas K. Chu
- John and Candice Frawley
- Nancy Gilbert and Richard Wines
- Susan Gullia
- Jean R. Held
- Victoria Herbert
- Anne Hopkins
- Jane T. Iselin
- Kathleen King
- Joe Mc Kay
- Russell C. McCall
- Sandra Powers
- Judith Saner
- Rosa, Tony, and Geneva Smith
- Carol J. Steinberg, Esq.
- Rosemary Terribile
Trustees Council members support our work and further the Trust’s mission in both an advisory and honorary capacity. Council members are donors who gave at the $25,000 level or more in the past twelve months, and/or those who have made an extraordinary lifetime gift to the Trust.
If you are interested in learning more or supporting the Trust, please contact Director of Development, Amanda Abraham, at 631-283-3195 or AAbraham@PeconicLandTrust.org.
- Avalon Park & Preserve
- Louis Bacon
- Glorian Berk
- Matthew and Kimberly Cantor
- Peg and Peter D'Angelo
- Margaret de Cuevas and Eric Schott
- Peggy and Millard Drexler
- George A. Hambrecht and Andrea H. Fahnestock
- John and Sally Henry
- The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation
- The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
- The Joyce & Irving Goldman Family Foundation
- Kathleen King
- Jo Carole and Ronald Lauder
- Nancy and Howard Marks
- Edward and Sandra Meyer
- Amanda and Donald Mullen
- Katharine Rayner
- Jim and Cheryl Reeve
- Carolyn and Marc Rowan
- Barbara Slifka
- Philippa Weismann and Lucy Veltri
- Ken and Megan Wright
Conservation Council members support our work and further the Trust’s mission in both an advisory and honorary capacity. Council members are annual donors who gave $5,000 to $24,999 in the past twelve months.
If you are interested in learning more or supporting the Trust, please
contact Director of Development, Amanda Abraham, at 631-283-3195 or
AAbraham@PeconicLandTrust.org.
- Abraham and Mildred Goldstein Charitable Trust
- The Scully Peretsman Foundation, Jessica Alfonsi
- All for the East End (AFTEE)
- Andrew Sabin Family Foundation
- Carol Mulvihill Ahlers and Ronald Ahlers
- Steve and Laura Bartholomew
- Gregory Bauso
- Evan Mason and Garrard Beeney
- Ruth and Leonard Benowich
- BNB Bank and Bridge Abstract
- Rick Bogusch
- Barbara Braun - The Neuwirth Foundation
- Rob and Carolyn Brennan
- Kathleen and Travis Brown
- Burt and Stanley Shaffer Foundation
- John Buttrick
- Marcia Bystryn
- Lori and Alexandre Chemla
- Michael Coles and Edie Landeck
- Comax Flavors
- Milton Cooper
- The Corcoran Group
- Jill and Mark Corwith
- Richard K. Corwith
- Christina Corwith Cole and Kevin Cole
- Harriet and Alan Dresher
- Michael Dukmejian and Polly Botti
- Charles P. Durkin, Jr.
- Susan Edwards and Ian Ziskin
- Cornelia Erpf-Forsman and Paul Forsman
- RainyDay and John Erwin
- Jim and Anna Fantaci
- Ann ffolliott
- Hans Flick and Celeste M. Kime
- John and Candice Frawley
- Brian Fuhrmann
- Joan Ganz Cooney
- Susan and Gary Garrabrant
- Nancy Gilbert and Richard Wines
- Suzanne and John Golden
- Elaine Greene Weisburg
- Wade Guyton
- Susan Koehn Habermann and Matthew Habermann
- Anne and John Hall
- Amy and Doug Halsey
- Lisa Hess
- Jonathan Hoefler and Carleen Borsella
- Jessica Hoffman Brennan
- The Houser Foundation
- Anne Hubbard
- Bettysue Hughes
- The David and Alice Hunt Family
- The J. Baker Foundation
- Merrin Jenkins
- Lisa and Sim Johnston
- Kate Cassidy Foundation
- James Kilpatric and Harry Neyens
- Karin and David Kuhns
- Judith and Alexander Laughlin
- Jacqueline LiCalzi
- Michael Light
- Sue Lonoff de Cuevas
- James MacGregor and Claire Montgomery
- The Makowski Trust
- Carole Greene-Mavity and Richard Mavity
- Joe Mc Kay
- Meryl Meltzer, Romenesa Foundation
- Joyce Menschel
- Jessica Mezzacappa and John Zieman
- Mary and Garrett Moran
- Alison Morgridge
- Olivia Motch
- Daniel and Brooke Neidich
- Jan Nicholson
- Outstanding in the Field, Inc.
- Raquel and Jeremy Palmer
- Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder
- Judith Saner
- Linda and Richard Schaps
- Maryam Seley
- Katja Goldman and Michael Sonnenfeldt
- Stein Family, East Marion
- Lauren Stone/Roger and Susan Stone Family Foundation
- Peter Talty and Linda Stabler-Talty
- John-Lansing J. Teal
- Lois Teich
- Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch
- Diana and Rafael Vinoly
- Eric M. Wechsler and Philip A. Kovacevich
- Pamela Weekes and Constance McDonald
- William C. Dowling Jr. Foundation
- Woodward Family Charitable Foundation
- Lloyd Zuckerberg and Charlotte Triefus on behalf of the Roy J. Zuckerberg Family Foundation
President’s Council members support our work and further the Trust’s mission in both an advisory and honorary capacity. Council members are annual donors who gave $1,000 to $4,999 in the past twelve months.
If you are interested in learning more or supporting the Trust, please contact Director of Development, Amanda Abraham, at 631-283-3195 or AAbraham@PeconicLandTrust.org.
- Diana and Kenneth Adams
- Jerome Adler and Beth Lebowitz
- Advantage Title Agency, Inc.
- Michael and Sheryl Ahearn
- Eric Altman
- Dr. Paula J. Angelone and Jerry Rosengarten
- Emily Aspinall
- Anne and Bruce Babcock
- John Bacon
- Lisa M. Burrell Baker
- Bob Baldwin and Margaret Sieck
- Leslie Barker
- Melissa Barnett
- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baron
- Mary Beth Barrett
- Jim and Ann Barry/Artisan Mortgage
- Betsy Battle
- Barbara and Steven Baum
- Shirley and Bob Bayley
- Theresa Beaumont
- Kathleen Kmet Becker
- Kathy and Gene Bernstein
- Bistrian Land Corporation
- Suzanne Bloomer
- David Bohnett
- Claire Boody
- Robert Boyle
- Patricia Ann Brennan
- The Bridgehampton Association, Inc.
- Irene and Stephen Brotman
- Marcus Bryan
- Lisa and Richard Byers
- Bettina Equities Management LLC
- James Cain
- Deborah Carmichael
- Joe and Maria Carney
- Camilla and Rudy Cesarini
- Pamela Choy
- Adam Lewis and Thomas K. Chu
- Leslie and Cliff Cohen
- Lillian and Joel Cohen
- Joanne and Anthony Colletta
- Natalie Conklin
- Amy and William Conway
- Cornucopia Natural Foods
- Helen and Paul Corwith
- Emily and Erich Cramer
- Thomas Crane
- Alice and Harold Culver
- Anne Nickel Curtin
- Michael Daly
- Ellen Darion and Roger Chudzik
- Robert de Rothchild
- Carol Deane
- Robert and Kristen DeLaMater
- Vishakha Desai and Robert Oxnam
- Deborah and Richard DeVerna
- Laura Donnelly
- Fred Doss and John Gicking
- Joanne and Issac Dowless
- Courtenay and Bill Dunk
- Suzanne Gluck and Thomas Dyja
- Michael Escue, Max Lucy Group LLC
- Wendy and Michael Esposito
- ExxonMobil Corporation
- Julia Fahey and Ben Rice
- The Fanwood Foundation
- Farm Credit East
- Judith and Warren Feder
- James Feigl
- Laura and Michael Ferrante
- Frank and Louiza Ferrara
- Rosemary and Carlos Ferrer
- Emilie Filmer-Wison
- First Coastal Corporation
- Dawn Fischer and Stacey Friedman
- Gabriella Fitzgerald and Jake Creem
- Jan Flaherty
- Robert Fleischer and Susan Raanan
- Anna Lou Fletcher
- Donna Fletcher
- Stephanie and Lawrence Flinn, Jr.
- Laura Flug
- Margaret H. Fowler
- The Fries Family
- Martie and Rick Fritz
- Anthony and Beth Galban
- Susan Gardner and Martha Cassidy
- Emily and Huntley Garriott
- Mary Ellen Geelan
- Joan and Tom Geismar
- Louise Guarneri and Stephen Gelfman
- Emma Gilbey-Keller
- Kenneth Gilman and Carol Feinberg
- Barbara Gladstone
- Nancy and Tom Gleason
- Mary Cox Golden
- Joanne and Thomas Gouge
- James Grathwohl
- Susan Gullia
- Kris Tate Haber
- Madelaine Haberman and Michael Sprung
- Melinda Hackett
- Beecher Halsey and Georgeann McGuinness
- John Halsey and Janis Ebli-Halsey
- William Hamilton
- Tricia Hammes and Jerome Mounier
- Noel and Deborah Hare
- Susan Harrison and Sara Hart
- Susan and Kevin Heaney
- The Hermance Family Foundation
- Michael Herz and Jean Roiphe
- Cantor-Rabbi Debra Stein and Alec Hirschfeld
- Constance Hoguet Neel
- Carolyn and David Holstein
- Alain Machu and Diana Horowitz
- Marguerita Howkins
- Carol and Tom Isles
- Donna Issenberg
- Ann Marie and Stephen Jones
- Carolina Zapf and John Josephson
- Harry Kamen
- Katy Kamen
- Matthew Kaplan and Karen Stone Kaplan
- Kimberly and John Keiserman
- Richard Kelsey and Barbara DiLorenzo
- Patricia Kenner
- Anthony Kiser/The William and Mary Greve Foundation
- Larry Klurfeld and Joele Frank
- Lisa Clare Kombrink and Jesse Camacho
- Elena and Howard Krotman
- Ed Krug and John Haubrich
- Anne G. Lange
- Wendy and Steven Langman
- Liza and John Larkin
- Kathy and Michael Lavyne
- Nan and Donald Leitch
- Helen and Mark Levine
- Kenneth and Jeanne Levy-Church
- Judith Little
- Patricia Lowry and John Touhey
- Karen Magovern
- Mark and Nina Magowan
- Anthony Manheim and Elaine Reis
- Marders
- Robert and Jane Matluck
- Leslie and Thomas Matthews
- The May Foundation
- Patricia McIntyre
- Mary McKay
- Renee and David McKee
- Richard McNally
- Leigh and Charles Merinoff
- Alistair G. C. Merrick
- Judith and David Miller
- Maryann and Bob Miller
- Maryellyn and Thad Miller
- Louise and David Milligan
- Linda Mirels
- Dede Gotthelf and Terry Moan
- Mary and Tom Morgan
- Bonnie Mountain
- Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Murphy
- Robert Musser and Barbara L. Francis
- Robin Sieranski and Paul Nardone, Jr.
- Samantha and Kevin Nasello
- Nawrocki Smith LLC
- Deborah Nevins
- Elin and Michael Nierenberg
- Connie and John Norbeck
- Liza and John Nugent
- Joseph Obermayer and Nicolas Rutherford
- Andrea Olshan Odell and Michael Odell
- Barbara Osif-Rousso
- John and Joan Owens
- Marc Packer
- Sandra Pershing and Marc Keller
- Barbara Phillips
- Sharon Pietrzak
- Jennifer and James Pike
- Lisa and Brian Pope
- Nancy Posel
- Tina Davis and Paul Powers
- Nancy and Sheldon Prentice
- Bill Price
- Rodney Propp
- Joseph Pufahl
- Anne and Jeff Pundyk
- Rachel Lynch Swimming Pools & Spas, Inc.
- The Ravenswood Foundation
- Yvetta Rechler-Newman
- Suzanne and Philip Reynolds
- Arleen and Robert Rifkind
- Karen and Gregg Rivara
- Rochetta Consulting Services
- Leah and Greg Rodgers
- Sheila Rodgers and Good Sheperd Farm
- Malgorzata and Andrzej Rojek
- Susan Malfa and Jonathan Rose
- Daniel Rosen CPA
- Lori and Scott Rosen
- Thomas and Bobbi Rosko
- Janet C. Ross
- Jane and Reed Rubin
- Maxwell Ryan
- Antonio and Michele Sacconaghi
- Carl Safina and Patricia Paladines
- Wiltraud Salm
- Ann Sandford
- Linda S. Sanford
- Arun and Rummi Sarin
- Lynn and John Savarese
- Sophia Schachter
- Elizabeth Schaffner
- Val Schaffner
- Idoline Scheerer
- Jill Schlesinger
- Fred Schmeltzer
- Cynthia and Donald Scholl
- Wendy Sclight and Gerald Monroe
- Regina and John Scully
- Marianne and Dom Seddio
- Joshua Lehrer and Jeffrey Seller
- Tracy and Eric Semler
- Robert Serling
- Karen and Samuel Seymour
- Ben Shapiro
- Dozie Sheahan
- Mariann and Kevin Simms
- Rob and Christine Smart
- Rosa and Anthony Smith
- Michael Halperin, Solarus Technologies
- South Country Farms LLC
- Lisa Stamm Booher
- Herbert J. and Marsha K. Stern
- Robert A.M. Stern
- Rand, Emilie, and Ben Stoll
- Jennifer Stone
- Elizabeth Strong-de Cuevas
- Summerhill Landscapes, Inc.
- Taranto Family Foundation
- The Tarr Family
- Lenard and Fern Tessler
- Cheryl Tortoriello
- Barbara Traphagen
- Peter and Laura Treadway
- Etta Tuttle
- George and Mary Gwen Halsey Tyda
- Robert Uher
- Glyn Vincent and Stacy Goodman
- Andrea and Paul Vizcarrondo
- Teri and Barry Volpert
- James Vos and Stephanie Joyce
- Candace and Jonathan Wainwright
- Cynthia Wainwright
- Andrew Walsh
- Chris Wedge and Jeanne Markel
- Robin Weingast and Claire Zeppieri
- Lisa Donneson and Henry Weisburg
- Howard Weiss
- Janine and Jonathan Weller
- Marissa Wesely and Fred Hamerman
- Lynda and Raymond Wesnofske
- William and Phyllis Mack Family Foundation
- Peter S. Wilson and Scott K. Sanders
- Patricia and Frederick Yosca
- Susan Kennedy Zeller
- Donald and Barbara Zucker
Throughout the years, the Peconic Land Trust has been fortunate to have the advice and counsel from many individuals who have generously given their time, experience and financial support to help us fulfill our mission of conserving Long Island’s working farms, natural lands and heritage. Our work would not be possible without their guidance throughout the years.
- Lucy Bradley*
- Douglas W. Campbell IV
- Julie P. DeBold
- Lee Foster
- Marilee Foster
- Nancy K. Goell
- Herbert Golden*
- Charlotte Hanson
- Richard Hogan
- Katherine Kazanas
- Richard W. King
- Albert J. Krupski, Jr.
- Hilary Leff
- Deborah Ann Light*
- Pingree W. Louchheim
- Robert M. Meltzer*
- Brian R. McCaffrey
- E. Blair McCaslin*
- Mary Foster Morgan
- Thomas Owen Morgan
- David R. Osborn
- Randall T. Parsons
- Edward P. Sharretts, Jr.*
- Betty Smith*
- Donald Willits Smith*
- Roger A. Smith
- Paul Stoutenburg*
- Herbert J. Strobel
- Terry Stubelek
- Thomas Thorsen
- Thomas J. Tobin
- Joseph J. Townsend, Jr.*
- Edwin Fishel Tuccio
- John Van Deventer, Jr.*
- Wesley W. von Schack
- Stephen Weir
- Thomas Wickham
- Roy L. Wines, Jr.*
- Barbara Brush Wright*
- Lloyd P. Zuckerberg
- * deceased
Partners
The following are just some of the organizations the Peconic Land Trust works with to conserve and protect Long Island's working farms, natural lands and heritage.
Finances
The Peconic Land Trust is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, recognized by the Internal Revenue Service. All gifts made to the Trust are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Federal ID #: 11-2667021
A copy of the Peconic Land Trust's financial report, filed with the New York State Attorney General, may be obtained by writing to:
- Office of the Attorney General, Department of Law, Charities Bureau, 28 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10005, or
- The Peconic Land Trust, P.O. Box 1776, Southampton, NY 11969.
- or by visit the Peconic Land Trust's page on GuideStar.
Locations
Mailing Address
296 Hampton Road
Southampton NY 11968
Southampton Office
North Fork Stewardship Center
Quail Hill Community Farm
Bridge Gardens
Bridgehampton, NY 11932
631-283-3195
631-283-0235 (fax)
bridgegardens@peconiclandtrust.org