Great Works is excited to announce that the permanent protection of another local farm is underway. Most of you know Deb-Tone Farm, even if the name doesn’t elicit an immediate image. Nestled at the top of Cabbage Hill on Route 4 in North Berwick, Deb-Tone Farm has been home since 1954 to Marion & Kenney Goodwin and their prize-winning “Milking Shorthorns”.
 | | Kenney and Marion Goodwin have made their life here – the farm and all the years of joy and hard work it represents mean the world to them. The Goodwins wish to pass along this farm to future generations of farmers. They do not want their investment of a lifetime of hard-work to disappear under concrete and lawns and Great Works Regional Land Trust shares their wish. |  | | This 20-acre farm represents a ‘keystone’ piece in the 500+ acre complex of fields that is Cabbage Hill and is part of our strategic plan to protect our regions’ working landscapes. This fact coupled with the predominance of agriculturally significant soils on the property made the conservation of Deb-Tone Farm eligible for partial (50%) funding from the Federal Farm & Ranchland Protection Program. Now we begin the exciting work of mobilizing our community to raise the remaining 50% of the funds necessary to purchase a conservation easement on Deb-Tone Farm. |
And we need your help!  The first step toward raising the local match ($115K) needed to make this a reality began on April 10th, when the citizens of North Berwick voted to allocate $40k from their Open Space Fund to this project. This brings us well over half-way to the finish line - now we need YOU, the people in our community who care about local food, farmland and the future of farming in our region to give too! Together we can protect one of the very best views of Mt. Agamenticus and keep the productive soils of Deb-Tone Farm from ever growing houses. |
For more information about GWRLT's Farmland Protection Program click here. 8/9/10 Portsmouth Herald Article click here | | | | A landscape sculpted by glaciers and reshaped by man, this panoramic view welcomes the thousands who daily pass by. Deb-Tone Farm has set the foreground of that vista for more than 60 years. Its fields and pastures reflect 200 years of productive farming, linking the people of North Berwick with their rural roots. While most of the skyline seen in the background has been protected by the Mt. Agamenticus conservation effort, this section of Route 4 skirts the edge of a 500-acre farmland cluster which will be a continuing focus for Great Works’ farmland protection efforts.
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