![]() The first session at Saturday’s Landowner Resource Fair, at 11 a.m., will cover the Jacoby Partnership and is intended specifically for landowners of properties in the Jacoby Greenbelt. The Village of Yellow Springs has committed up to $205,000 from its greenbelt fund. An additional $2.1 million of state and local funds have been earmarked for the project. The Jacoby Partnership, which mobilizes part of the 2014 Farm Bill, is one of only 70 such programs approved nationwide. Those plans took a step forward last year when TLT won a $1.44 million grant over the next five years to purchase agricultural easements, fund conservation practices and conduct other programs in a part of the Little Miami watershed. The goal of creating a Jacoby Greenbelt dates back to the 1970 Village Comprehensive Land Use Plan. The Village of Yellow Springs has long reaffirmed the need to protect the rural landscape and prime soil of the Jacoby watershed from eastward commercial and residential expansion from the direction of Fairborn. One thrust of the event is to encourage landowners in the Jacoby Creek watershed just west of Yellow Springs to permanently preserve their properties through conservation easements held by TLT. Sessions on estate planning and conservation easements will be mixed with presentations on prairies, pollinator plantings, cover crops, soil building and converting to organic agriculture. “ showing why conservation is important, why smart land use is important.” “There’s a community education aspect about what we do,” Magaw said this week. ![]() ![]() The resource fair will be the first of its type hosted by TLT, which serves as a one-stop information resource for the many government and nonprofit programs in place to conserve land and water resources on area properties.Īccording to Krista Magaw, executive director of Tecumseh Land Trust, the focus of the event is on educating landowners, large and small. 3, at the John Bryan Community Center, 100 Dayton St. Land and water preservation and management, soil conservation and other environmental matters will be explored at the Landowner Resource Fair hosted by the Tecumseh Land Trust this weekend.
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