nefoclandtrust.org
The Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust* (NEFOC LT) is a hybrid model land trust, bringing together a community land trust commons model for farmland preservation and a conservation land trust model to conserve and steward ecosystems with the goal of manifesting a community vision that uplifts regenerative global Indigenous, Black, and POC relationships with land, skills, and lifeways.
We are advancing permanent and secure land tenure through farmland acquisition and land access for farmers, as well as development of farmer training, resources, and community. We are working to conserve land through protecting native species ecosystems, engaging in regenerative farming and agroforestry, and advancing environmental policy that upholds the Rights of Nature (Personhood). Our land trust centers BIPOC voices and leadership and honors Indigenous sovereignty, while healing colonial harm and protecting our future by creating a carbon drawdown in the Northeast.
NEFOC LT staff and Board of Directors embody diverse skill sets in cooperative development, climate justice, food and land sovereignty, farming and herbalism, education, and Global Indigenous ways of honoring the land and one another. NEFOC LT was incubated by Soul Fire Farm and with its growth is now incubated with Movement Sustainability Commons. It is supported by a constellation of values-aligned allied and sibling organizations providing technical and legal support.