Kent Land Trust Inc

Conservation education and outreach: the land trust conducts public education, outreach, and community service events throughout the year, drawing on the support of community volunteers to organize hikes, scout service projects, educational presentations, and other events. It typically hosts a town-wide community conservation picnic with family-oriented activities and displays encouraging conservation. It publishes an e-newsletter and shares conservation information via social media. Kent land trust leases property to a local organic vegetable farmer and manages a community garden on land trust land. An active partner of the chamber of commerce and to kents municipal commissions, the land trust promotes food security through donations of fresh produce to the local food bank, and hosts community concerts and the local farmers market on its land adjoining the village center.

Conservation acquisition: the organization protects conservation resources including water, wetlands, forest, and farmland through direct ownership and conservation easements.