The Trust for Public Land’s work on the Northampton Community Farm helped to open our minds to the possibilities inherent in community agriculture. In the course of the project, we accepted the risk of partnering with and selling land to a newly formed nonprofit (Grow Food Northampton) rather than selling to individuals who already had financing in place. The result is beyond what any of us could have expected, and it has put us on the lookout for other opportunities like this that stretch the imagination and push our risk tolerance.
