About Us
We are a farmland-focused land trust preserving land in Central Pennsylvania.
Learn about the Trust
Our Work
Donors and landowners make our land preservation work possible. Learn how.
How we preserve land
Join Us
Together, we can help preserve lands that benefit us all with rich soil, cleaner water and air.
How you can help
Explore land preservation
Each piece of land has a story
The owners of each one of our 17 preserved lands looked to the future with a love of their land. They all chose to preserve their land for various and personal reasons.
Protecting their land from development represents an economic sacrifice for the greater good of us all and our future generations.
Learn the stories of these lands preserved through the Centre County Farmland Trust, like the Rossman Family Farm in Potter Township (pictured).
Preserve your land
We can help you explore preserving your land, starting with a conversation.
We work within a community of land preservation and conservation organizations and can help you find the best partner for you and your conservation goals.
Visit Preserve Your Land to learn more. Contact the Centre County Farmland Trust at any time with questions. We can setup a conversation.
News & Updates
Parks Woodland
Nancy Parks and Bill van den Berg wanted to protect land from an encroaching quarry near their Aaronsburg home. At a 2000 auction, they bought 16 acres of walnut trees and native wildflowers, and later two adjacent parcels of 11 acres. These 27…
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Did You Know?
Pennsylvania is a leader in conserving farmland This relatively recent movement for institutional land preservation started with Lancaster County’s creation in 1980 of the…
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The Preserved Hodge Farm
History emanates from Hodge Farm. Hugh & Barbara Hodge insured it always would when they donated an agricultural conservation easement to the Centre County Farmland…
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Did You Know?
We tend to forget them in intervening years. But without fail, every 13 and 17 years various parts of the United States are visited by…
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