Posts by Lillian Schneider
A Warm Welcome to our Newest Board Member: Ben Wilson!
Please join us in welcoming the newest member of the Jefferson Land Trust Board of Directors: Ben Wilson! Ben joins the Land Trust after a 35-year career in healthcare and technology, having started companies like BabyCenter, Consumer Health Interactive, and Together Senior Health and worked for multinational corporations including Intel and Citrix. He currently serves…
Read MoreNew Community Pavilion at Valley View Forest
As visitors to Valley View Forest make their way toward the natural studies area, they’ll now be met with an enchanting sight. There, in a clearing enclosed by alder, cedar, and sword ferns, they’ll find a stunning timber frame pavilion, built with the help of dedicated community volunteers using trees harvested from this forest. A…
Read MoreThe 2022-23 Report to Our Community Has Arrived!
The Land Trust’s 2022-23 Report to Our Community is here! Each year, we publish our report to demonstrate and celebrate the collective impact made possible by your support. In this latest report, we explore the long-ranging impacts of our successful efforts to protect working agricultural lands in Jefferson County; highlight the achievements of our incredible…
Read MoreCelebrating our Community Farms at the 21st Annual Jefferson County Farm Tour
Working with our community, Jefferson Land Trust has protected more than 1,500 acres of agricultural land in Jefferson County, including 20 local farms. Over the weekend of September 16-17, we had a great time celebrating our amazing farms and farmers at Jefferson County Farm Tour 2023! Twenty farms participated in this year’s tour, including four…
Read MoreLand Trust Awarded Grant to Promote Soil Health on Protected Agricultural Lands
We’re excited to share that Jefferson Land Trust was recently awarded a Soil Health Stewards Program grant from the American Farmland Trust’s National Agricultural Land Network (NALN). The $10,000 grant and associated training will help our stewardship staff better evaluate the soil conditions on farmland the Land Trust has helped protect, and better support the…
Read MoreGet Ready for Jefferson County Farm Tour: September 16 and 17
Jefferson County Farm Tour will return the weekend of September 16-17! Come celebrate local food, fiber, and farm-made products while exploring local farms and meeting the farmers who work hard to nourish our community. This year, fourteen local farms are participating (including a few of the 18 that you’ve helped protect forever with your support…
Read MoreGreat News! We Reached Our Fundraising Goal for the Quimper Wildlife Corridor Challenge!
We’re celebrating big news! Thanks to our amazing community and the support of public agencies, private foundations, and individual landowners, we’ve met the fundraising goal we set with the Quimper Wildlife Corridor Challenge to raise $3.14 million to protect up to 167 more acres of the corridor! This necklace of green provides essential wildlife habitat,…
Read MoreNew Accessible Trail at Illahee Preserve
A new, 150-ft-long accessible trail from the parking area to the picnic shelter at Illahee Preserve is ready for your feet and your wheels! With funding from Jefferson County’s Accessible Community Advisory Committee, our hardworking field crew and community volunteers installed the trail to the picnic shelter and a van-accessible parking spot earlier this month.…
Read MoreCheck It Out: Chimacum Ridge Featured on KPTZ’s Nature Now
Come with Nature Now host (and past Jefferson Land Trust Board member) Nan Evans to the forests of Chimacum Ridge as she talks with Jefferson Land Trust’s Stewardship Director Erik Kingfisher and his wife Jen Kingfisher about their family’s recent experiences living at the foot of the Ridge. In Episode #631, “A Family’s Experience on…
Read MoreChimacum Commons Project Update: Olympic Housing Trust Launches Feasibility Survey
In 2014, the Land Trust purchased a 15.7-acre agricultural property in the heart of Chimacum, right around the corner from the Chimacum Corner Farmstand. We called this property “Chimacum Commons,” and had a threefold vision for the project: 1) to protect this valuable farmland in Chimacum Valley’s agricultural corridor, 2) to conserve and restore the…
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