Thank You to All Who Have Supported This Campaign!

We have raised $558,183 and feel confident that this will secure the long-term home of Brookfield Farm

Click here for information about the Campaign

about the campaign:

At the start of the campaign, Brookfield Farm owned 20% of the tillable land we steward. As an increasingly competitive real estate market puts pressure on agricultural land, it has become apparent Brookfield Farm needs to take action to secure our tillable land base.

The goal of the Land Legacy campaign was to raise $550,000 to have on hand to purchase land as it becomes available so that 100% of our tillable land base is owned outright by Brookfield Farm.

Land legacy fund news:

2/3/2022

• The campaign exceeded its fundraising goal of 347 gifts.

• Brookfield Farm paid off the Warren Wright property bringing the tillable land owned by Brookfield Farm to 60%. We are preparing to put this land into cultivation in 2022 and have received a state grant to install a well for irrigation. Outright ownership of this property frees up $9,000/year of operating funds.

• Looking forward, we are holding the remaining funds earmarked specifically for land acquisition and we stand at the ready to secure the additional 16 acres of tillable land we need to fulfill our vision of self-sufficiency.

If you would still like to participate:

The Biodynamic Farmland Conservation Trust, Inc. (BFCT) is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation and all donations to it are 100% tax-deductible. Created in 1986 by Claire and Dave Fortier, it’s mission is to create and support responsible agriculture by furthering all aspects of sustainable, biodynamic, organic, or other environmentally, economically, and spiritually healthy agricultural techniques.

DONOR LIST

As of September 1, 2021 -
347 Gifts

Zoe Abram & Will Van Heuvelen
Elizabeth Adams
John & Natalie Adams
Doug Adler
Jan Albro & Robert Gallant
Elizabeth Allan, in honor of the Zobel Family
Patricia Appelbaum & Bill Holladay
Brad Arndt
Available Potential Enterprises, Ltd.
Kate & Steve Atkinson
Christina Barber & Matt Lorenz
Olive Barber & Pete Sienkewicz
Donna Baron & Steve Silvern
Helen Barrington
Jan Baudendistel & James Pewtherer, in memory of Ekkehard Piening
Ann & Klaus Becker
Ilana & Mark Beigel
Andrea Berlowe & Jonathan Binder
Carol Berker
Iris and David Berkman, in honor of Karen and Dan
Jennifer & Mark Bixby
Marilyn & Jeff Blaustein
Timothy Bobrowski
Ronnie Booxbaum
Ellen & David Bollier
Janet Bordwin
Stephen Bosco
Andrea & Christopher Boyko
Alisa Braverman, in honor of Les Kanterak
Mark Brownell
Lenore & Ira Bryck
Paul Bucciaglia
Alyx Burns & Zoe Crabtree
Anne & Tony Burton
Kelly Cahill-Murphy & Brian Murphy
Melissa Campbell
Claudia Canale-Parola & Matthew Blumenfeld
Vivienne Carey
Karen Carriera
Cindy Carpenter & Jesse Winch
Gregory Carter
Venuta Carulli & John Larsen
Barbara Carulli & Thom Masterton
Elaine Cat & Dick Loomis
Judith & David Cesario
Laura Chalk & Stefano Crema
Stephanie Chan
Christine & Larry Charbonneau
Annie Cheatham & Ann Taylor Gibson, in honor of Abbe Vredenburg
Sarah Christensen, in memory of Marion Kaplan
Andy Churchill, in memory of Jackie Churchill
Graham Churchill, in memory of Jackie Churchill
Beth Cohen
Laura Cohen, in honor of farmers around the world
Lori Colliander & James Cooper, in celebration of putting roots down, and in honor of organizations that support career changers whose work ethic and values align for the benefit of the greater good
Katherine Conway
Joe Costello
Amy & Eric Crawley
Brigitte Daniel
Elana Davidson & Virginia Dillon
Jacqui & Scott DeFelice, in honor of Arthur & Heide Zajonc
Christine DeJong
Marilyn Denny
Uhlrike Detling
Ana Devlin Gauthier
Katherine & Tom Dews
Robin and Ted Diamond
Sally Dillon
Nancy Dimattio & Rob Quinn, in memory of Elizabeth Houston and June Quinn
Betsy Dinger
Heide Dollard & Don Verrastro
Olivia Dreier, in honor of Alexander Dreier
Pamela Drexler & Ken Lopez
Don Drews, in honor of Ellen Drews
Ellen Drews, in memory of Beth Drews
Priscilla Drucker
Darcy DuMont
Kathryn Dunn
Carolyn & Jesse Edsell-Vetter
Ruth Elcan
Michele Emanatian & David Delaney
Carolyn & Jesse Edsell-Vetter
Kelly Erwin & Warren Graham
Jeanne Esposito & George Karras
Susan Fields & Keith Fairey
Ben Fishbein
Nancy Fletcher
Eliot Forman
Helen Fortier, in memory of Claire & David Fortier
Garth & Theresa Frable
Gary French, in Memory of Bonnie French
Rebecca & Tom Fricke
Elaine Fronhofer & Michael Wright
Lorraine Fryer & Vladimir Barash
Francine & Graham Gal
Kalyani & Deepak Ganesan
Amy Garbis
Ibby Gemmill
Lucy Gertz & Michael DeChiara
Capitola & Ed Glica
Theresa & Matt Godfrey
Barbara Goldstein
Hannah Goodwin
Patricia Gorman
Diane and Ned Gray
Alice Groh, in memory of Trauger Groh
Jim Habana Hafner, for cultivating new farmers and community
Mara and Harry Hahn
Claire Hamilton
Cheryl Harrell & Kavita Hunt, in honor of David Pinkham
Betsy Hartmann & Jim Boyce, in honor of Martha Hartmann
Christine Hatch
Lynn Hatch, in memory of Timothy Monaghan
Jill Hathaway & Nick Fay
Jenny Hausman & Bruce Wooster
Pamela Hecht
Susan Heitker & Mat Jacobson
Tomma Henckel & Ron Miller
ME Hersey & Will Mohn
Lizzie Herskovitz
Rebecca Herst & Dan Lesser, in honor of Dan Kaplan
Mary Hill
Catherine Hilton, in memory of Robert Creed
Sue & Todd Holland
Cynthia Holmes
Lauren & Ken Holt
Max Hopley, in honor of Jen Veshia
Emily Howard & Curtis Ogden
Susan Howard & David Bernstein
Barbara Hruska
Michelle Huber
Priscilla Hunt & Victor Lesser
Jennifer Hyde & David Bronstein
Paul Ita
Jocelyn Johnson
Leslie Johnson & John Tobiason
Elizabeth Kaplan & Dan Gordon
Jacqueline Katz
Gina Kaufman & Michael Ringler, Brookfield Farm has been an important part of our lives for the past 13 years. Thank you!
Annabelle Keil
Sue & Elliot Kelly
Rachel and Dan Kennedy
Elaine Kenseth
Mary Kate Kerins
Susan Kimball & David Hamilton
Margaret & Skott Klebe
Barbara Kline & David Henion
Betsy Krause
Sukey & Rhett Krause
Jordan Krechmer
Joyce & Michael Kurland
Kate Kyros & Jacob Miller-Mack
Susan Landau & Neil Immerman
Kris Larson, in memory of Steve Karpovich
Karen Lederer & Brian Sabel
Pamela Swack Ledoux
Alexandra & Jeff Lefebvre
Janice & Robert Lefebvre
Tanya Leise
Karen Levine & Tom Gardner
Erica Levy and Alan Kingstone, in honor of Dan & Karen
Emily & Carl Lowenberg
Karen & Bo Mack
Kyna Mackey
Jean & John MacKimmie
Larry & Pat Manire
Mary Elizabeth Manz, in honor of Les Brown
Jane & Dudley Mairs
Anne Marley, in memory of Dave Marley
Emily Marsters
Cecilia & Dennis Mathewson, in memory of Nick Rege-Colt
Christopher McCoy
Stuart McCracken
Denise McGoldrick
Janet McGowan & Thomas Webb
Samuel McGrath
Lisa McKeag
Sarah McKee
Rebekah McLaughlin
Peter McLean
Julia Menard-Warwick
Emily & Stephen Merriman
Maureen Millea & Erik Zimmerman
Karen Miller, in honor of Barbara Young and Alan Miller
Lenore Miller
Kimberly Misra
Monica Moran & Bill Wehrli
Klara Moricz & David Schneider
Sue Morrello & Nathan Salwen
Elizabeth Morrissey
Tom Morton
Molly Moskal
Marlene Musante
Martha Nelson
Deborah Neubauer
Johanna Neumann & Nick Reich
Rhonda Newman & Jimmy Ilson
Catherine Newman & Michael Millner
Joy Nicholson & Matthew Sakai
Joyce Nolan
Kathleen Norton
Marjorie Nott
Christina & Klaus Nuesslein
Old Friends Farm, in honor of Mary & Dana Snyder
John O'Keefe
Aaron Okrasinski
Laura Oppedisano
Linda Ordoukhanian
Chris Paradis
Angie Pate
Crystal Paul
Jessica Payne, So proud to contribute to this campaign; such a fantastic case for support; wish I could do more! Donated with Love and Gratitude
Rosie Pearson, in honor of Kassie & Ethan
Linda Pellegrini
Elizabeth & Anthony Perry
Jon Petitt
Kate Pfister & Neil Stillings
Rebekah Phillips
Lisa Plantefaber & Steven Fischel
Sean Polvino
Adelia & Daniel Pope
Michele Pratusevich & Robin Deits
Michelle & Dan Prindle
Judy Raiffa
Katie Neill Raper & Peter Raper
Lia Raz
Nancy & David Reffsin
Melinda Reid & Charlie Tebbetts
Maya Rege-Colt
Alice Robbins
Monica Robelotto
Janet Robinson, in honor of Zoe Robinson
Lucy and John Robinson
Maria Rocco
Erin Roche
Artemis Roehrig & Colin Hill
Chris Rollins, in memory of Roger Fega
Karen Romanowski & Daniel Kaplan, in memory of Marion Kaplan
Steve Roof
Bob Rosen
Therese Ross
Fanny Rothschild
Janet & Robert Ryan
Tammy Ryan
Polly & Jan Kees Saltet
Karen & Benigno Sanchez-Eppler
Joan & Bruce Schaeffer
Rebecca Scott
Bonnie Sennott, in memory of Jackie Churchill
Suzanne & Steve Severin
Laurie Shannon & Sue Everden
Margarita Shannon & Nina Dabek
Ellen Shaw-Smith
Jane Sherburne, in honor of phoebe blaze asher
Jill Shulman & Mat Lebowitz
Joy Silverstein
Eva Skibild & Michael Stenz
Lois Sloan, in memory of Marion Kaplan
Cheryl Smith & Bernard Morzuch
Sam & Elizabeth Smith
Sheila & Don Snyder, in honor of Benjamin Snyder Greene
The Snyder Family, in honor of Mary & Dana Snyder
Amy Springer & Aaron Hayden
Linda & Roger Stenlund
Kathleen Stinson
Rebecca Stowe & Ryan Alekman
Judith & Kerry Strayer
Elizabeth Stubbs
The Sustick Family
Ravya Taghavi
Michelle Tardy & William Oughton, in honor of Paris Boyce
Rhona Taylor
Danya Teitelbaum
Shubha Tewari & Narayanan Menon
Karen Thomas & Mark Hensley
Lisa Thompson
Lynne Thompson
Stacy and David Tobin
Pamela Tomic
Nathaniel & Ila Deshmukh Towery
Kathleen Traphagen & Khalid Elkalai
Karen & Bill Tunnell
Leila Tunnell & Jake Mazar
Juliana Vanderwielen
Pam Victor & Jeff Hausthor
Gretchen Vice
Christine Volonte & Doug Albertson
Gail & Didier Voisin
Abbe Vredenburg
Erika Wallace & Wes Somerville, in honor of Wally
Anna Warrock & Robert Smyth
Sue Wasseluk & Mike Risano
Wendy Weinberg
Nancy Gonter Weld, in memory of Peekaboo
Rebecca & Calliope Winters & John Dickens
Betsey Wolfson
Carol Wood
Sarah & Alex Workman
Reed Wulsin & Dennis Szuhay
Elaine & Michael Yellin
August Zajonc
Don Zasada & Brigid Spann
Erika Zekos & Derek Noble
Katie & Chris Zobel
Mary & Jay Zyskowski

Anonymous - 27 Gifts
in honor of Paris Boyce
in honor of Robert Arnold
in honor of the open land filled in the last decade
in honor of Fran Rachel
in in memory of hunter gatherers who missed out on farm life.
In honor of Ms Abbe, whose immense joy I witness, year after year while tending to her corner of the farm

Board Members:
Edie and Donnie Allison
Joanna and Clay Ballantine
Paris and Jay Boice
Sandy and Peter Littell
Roberta Lojko
Marcie Meuhlke and Brian Yellen
Donna and Philip Petitt
Jennifer Veshia and Nick Hopley
Jessica Wolff & Kevin Landau, in honor of Dan & Karen
Heide and Arthur Zajonc, emeritus

The Biodynamic Farmland Conservation Trust, Inc. (BFCT), a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation and all donations to it are 100% tax-deductible. Created in 1986 by Claire and Dave Fortier, it’s mission is to create and support responsible agriculture by furthering all aspects of sustainable, biodynamic, organic, or other environmentally, economically, and spiritually healthy agricultural techniques.