Mapping the Future

Sets forth a bold set of goals and objectives that will focus and guide the Peconic Land Trust’s mission delivery for the next five years, beginning in 2023 and ending in 2027.

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Donor Spotlight | Joe Mc Kay and his late partner John Page

Committed to supporting the Trust’s Farms for the Future Initiative

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How to Protect your Plantings from Storms

With more and more chances for storms here in the northeast, here are a few tips to consider when you are planting and harvesting next year: Pick your fruits and veggies as quickly and timely as po...

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Garden Prep for Hurricane Season

I’ve been thinking a bit about hurricanes. Hurricane season spans the entire summer and most of the fall. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says there’s a 65% chance of an abo...

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In the Garden with Alison and Aaron: An Ag Center Community Garden Adventure

The Trust's Alison Delaney and her husband Aaron began prepping their community garden space at the Ag Center at Charnews Farm this week -- getting ready to grow their own vegetables! Take a few minut...

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Cover Crops: Trials at the Ag Center Provide Data for Farmers

For the past several years, we have partnered with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County on cover crop trials at the Agricultural Center at Charnews Farm in Southold. Each year we plant any...

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Seven Farmland Parcels Purchased in Cutchogue

“This is a remarkable project for which we are very grateful to the Bacon Family Trust and the team at Mattituck Farm Holdings for putting their faith in us to ensure this productive agricultural land...

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Tim Curry the Farmer behind Fire for Effect Farms

Tim Curry is new to farming, but eager to share the outdoor lifestyle with other veterans like himself. For the past two years, Tim has been leasing farmland from the Trust through our Farms for the F...

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Farms for the Future Farm Stand Now Open

If the flag is out, the farm stand is open! Stop by the big white tent at the Agricultural Center at Charnews Farm, 3005 Youngs Avenue, Southold to support the Farms for the Future Farmers. Now in its...

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Deborah Ann Light Preserve

The fertile farmland of the Deborah Ann Light Preserve is in its glory in the late summer and early fall season, with rich vibrant colors and acres of vegetables and flowers in the fields ready for th...

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8 Hands Farm

Icelandic sheep were the inspiration for a new farmstead when Tom Geppel and Carol Festa acquired over 27 acres -- including a circa 1930s farmhouse and barns -- from the Peconic Land Trust in the fal...

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Danilevsky Farmland

In the Spring of 2014, the Peconic Land Trust went into contract to purchase two farmland parcels, a total of 33 acres, from the Estate of Charlotte Danilevsky contingent upon the simultaneous purchas...

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New Ag Center Welcomes New Farmers

We are excited to welcome our first Latino-run cooperative in our Farms for the Future Initiative program. Miguel Flores, Juan Antonio Zúñiga, and Alci Mejía bring a rich agricultural heritage from th...

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Meet John v.H. Halsey, Founder & President, Peconic Land Trust

Founders Story

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From Wedding Bells to Bell Peppers: Success of Priscilla’s Farm

Have you been to the Trust’s Agricultural Center at Charnews Farm in Southold? If you visited over the summer, you were greeted with rows of colorful flowers behind the big white barn. Those flowers a...