Tony’s Coffee, based in Bellingham, Washington, and PCC Community Markets have been supporting local, sustainable agriculture for decades. Today, the two companies have teamed up to produce a new coffee blend sold exclusively at PCC stores to benefit sustainable farming on both a local and global scale. The blend is called Terra Nova, and for…
The Working Farmland Partnership: keeping ag land in production in King County
September 4, 2019
Access to farmland is one of the biggest challenges farmers face today. This is especially true in Washington, where the average price per acre of farmland has doubled in the last four years. Beginning farmers face significant barriers to finding available and affordable land to start their businesses, and established farmers often struggle to find…
25 projects funded through Advancing Farm Sustainability
August 30, 2019
In 2016, PCC Farmland Trust launched Advancing Farm Sustainability (AFS), a micro-grant program that supports farmers in their adoption of new approaches to sustainable land management. Three years into the program, we are pleased to have been able to support 25 projects that support lasting improvements to soil, water, and/or habitat on our conserved farms.…
Join us for a PCC Cooks class to benefit farmland
July 19, 2019
Our founder PCC Community Markets has put together a perfect menu to celebrate local farms in their Farm to Table with PCC Farmland Trust series for PCC Cooks. Best of all, a portion of proceeds from the classes will go directly to our campaign to protect farmland in the Puget Sound region: Our Farms, Our…
Board member spotlight: Liz Gorman
We are pleased to welcome Liz Gorman to the PCC Farmland Trust board, effective June 2019. With more than 25 years of experience as a professional communicator, Liz Gorman has spent the past two decades solely focused on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability strategy and communications, a specialty that began while leading community affairs…
PCC Farmland Trust’s land-matching program Farm to Farmer expands to Skagit County
July 15, 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Seattle, Washington | As a farmland conservation organization, PCC Farmland Trust sees farmers as the first line of defense for protecting our region’s soil health for generations to come. Recognizing this idea alongside the land access challenges that our region’s farmers face, the Trust launched Farm to Farmer in 2018, a land-matching…
2018 Annual Report
June 17, 2019
Protecting Farms, Supporting Farmers “From launching a land-matching tool for local farmers and continuing to build momentum with the Our Farms, Our Future campaign, to fully subscribing our first-ever impact investment vehicle, I am proud of the innovative ways we have responded to rising land prices across this region.” Read more from our Board President,…
Help protect the Stillaguamish Valley
May 13, 2019
At PCC Farmland Trust, we believe that healthy farms make healthy communities. Well-managed farmland promotes soil health, water conservation, habitat protection, and climate resiliency. It produces healthy food, keeps rural economies thriving, and connects us to the natural world. This couldn’t be more true in the Stillaguamish Valley. Nested along the foothills of the Cascade Mountains,…
Board President spotlight: Mark Kantor
May 3, 2019
Mark Kantor has served on the PCC Farmland Trust board since 2016. Effective April 10, we are pleased to welcome Mark as our new Board President. As a founding shareholder of Kantor Taylor, Mark represents for-profit, nonprofit, and public entities in all aspects of the financing, planning, and development of affordable housing and economic development…
Meet Melissa Campbell, our new Executive Director
January 25, 2019
Effective February 1, 2019, the PCC Farmland Trust board selected Melissa Campbell to be the next executive director of PCC Farmland Trust. Melissa joined PCC Farmland Trust in 2008, bringing a deep knowledge of natural resource conservation and land access barriers in the Puget Sound region. She began her tenure at the Trust by building its…