Description
Agricultural planning modules that provide guidance and resources on new issues like food system planning, agripreneurism, and composting, while giving detailed guidance on historically important issues such as farmland conservation, farmland and taxes, and land use regulations. These topics are covered in 5 short easily digestible modules that can be read as a series or quickly referenced individually.
Resources in this Collection
Module 1: Agriculture and Food System Planning
An introduction to agriculture and food system planning.
Module 2: Agricultural Land Conservation
A planning guide to agricultural land conservation that covers partners, tools and techniques, and resources.
Module 3: Farmland and Property Taxes
This module explains how farmland is taxed, and what would happen in both the short and long term if farmland protection tools available to communities were utilized.
Module 4: Local Regulatory Context
An overview of how local regulations can promote diversified enterprises on farms that can help bolster farm viability, keep land open and in production, and maintain or enhance a community's sense of place.
Module 5: State Regulations
An overview of the intersection between agricultural land use planning and Vermont's Right to Farm Law and Act 250.
Local Planning for Food Access
This toolkit focuses on improving food access through municipal and regional plans.There are a wide variety of ways to address food access in plans in conjunction with other issues of concern to communities, such as economic development, transportation, and much more. This resource includes information on the planning process, explores the way that food access relates to other topics that are already being addressed through local planning, provides suggested strategies to include and advice on how to select the most appropriate, and presents successful examples from around the state.
