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Land Trust Project

Please note that the project name is being to changed to Land Trust Partnership.
Please note that this project is still at the visioning and creation stage and an actual land trust has not yet been created.


Creating a Hudson Land Trust is about building partnerships around a shared vision and agricultural space where we can co-develop and co-learn while building our complementary initiatives towards regenerative community, collectively.

If you are interested in becoming a partner,
​please get in touch at hfc@hudsonfoodcollective.com 

Land Trust Project

The idea to start a Hudson Land Trust Project grew out of
a couple of informational meetings and discussions in Spring 2015
​ that we called the Agrivisioning Series.

The objective of this project is to protect agricultural land in Hudson for local, ecological food production. The AgriVisioning series that HFC facilitated with the goal to learn and discuss possibilities to increase the productivity of local agricultural land.

Aims of the Hudson Land Trust Project

The project aims to
  • Protect agricultural land
  • Support (new) farmers
  • Develop resilient local economies and food systems

AGRIVISIONING #1 with the Centre Local du Dévelopement

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AgriVisioning #2 with Protec-Terre and Transition N.D.G

Part two of the series brought Protec-Terre, an organization that specializes in land trusts, and Transition NDG (TtNDG), a transition town group who have it in their vision to source all of their food within a 300km radius, together to the Hudson Community Center. Inspired by the ideas of creating an agricultural land trust in partnership and of solidifying a rural-urban relationship between our two largely English speaking towns in the westerly regions of Montreal, a partnership formed between the HFC and TtNdg, and later with Concordia students through the Concordia Food Coalition.
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The HFC and Transition NDG were very inspired by the potential
to create an rural-urban relationship through the development of this project.
From there, a partnership between our projects grew.
Now, both groups have representation on each other's Board of Directors.

Protec-Terre continued to provide consultation and information.

In Fall 2015, in order to add capacity to the project,
The Hudson Land Trust Project became a working group of the Concordia Food Coalition.

By continuing to find interested groups and individuals,
we have continued to engage in dialogue and build relationships around the project.
Below are pictures from a visioning and a farm walk
​with groups of individuals interested in the project from a diversity of perspectives.
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Through being open to allowing this project to evolve, it has led to interesting developments. One notable example is that, through presenting the ideas that we had been discussing as part of the HLTP at a citizen's committee meeting to activate the strategic plan, we stumbled on the possibility of gaining access to municipally-owned, agriculturally-zoned land. And so was conceived the Hudson Community Farm.
Hudson Land Trust Project Website
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Thank you to our funders for making the Hudson Heartbeet Community Farm possible.
Regenerative agriculture provides answers to the soil crisis, the food crisis, the health crisis, the climate crisis and the crisis of democracy.
- Vandana Shiva
  • Home
  • About
    • About the HFC
    • Food Systems
    • Our Team
    • Our Board
    • Partners and Friends
    • Our Funders
  • Projects
    • Hudson Heartbeet Community Farm
    • Food Transformation Project
    • Kitchen Garden
    • Seed Library
    • Wild Edible Series
    • Land Trust Partnership
    • Fruit Tree Program
    • Climate Action
  • Get Involved
    • Events
    • Communication
    • Membership
    • Donate
    • Volunteer
    • Wish List
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