Working Lands Resiliency Initiative - 18 month update

Taos Land Trust

Since early 2019, the Taos Land Trust has been engaged in a long-term iterative process known as the Working Lands Resiliency Initiative. The goal of this work is to reconnect traditional farming families to their lands and their farming heritage. The land trust is asking: How can conservation easements, tax breaks, planning and zoning work together to keep farm lands from development while at the same time giving those lands economic, community and conservation values? How can this help a rural community achieve climate resilience? In this episode, Jim O’Donnell talks with Chyna Dixon, the Working Lands Resiliency Coordinator and Ben Wright, the Education and Lands Projects Coordinator for the Taos Land Trust. This episode was recorded at the studios of Taos Sound and Media in Taos, New Mexico on September 29, 2020. Produced by Jim O'Donnell. Recorded and edited by Brett Tomadin of Taos Sound and Media (www.taossound.com/) Listen to the November 2019 podcast introducing the Working Lands Resiliency Initiative here: https://soundcloud.com/taos-land-trust/working_lands Links in this episode: https://taoslandtrust.org/working-lands/ https://taoslandtrust.org/nm-healthy-soils-program/ Please support this podcast with a donation: taoslandtrust.org/donate-form/