Land
OSALT holds land for use by future generations of growers, and works with growers to conduct research and/or education on the lands protected.The Trust protects land in order to keep it in agricultural production, to make it available for successive generations of growers, and to conduct research into sustainable practices.
OSALT makes lands available to growers at below market rates so that growers have access to land under terms that they can meet, thus keeping agricultural lands in agricultural use. In exchange for these lower rates, growers conduct research as part of their operations. As a consequence, OSALT gets research into real agricultural problems performed by real growers in real-life situations. This yields better solutions, applicable on more farms, ranches, nurseries, forests, gardens, wild places and habitats.
Keeping the land in trust over generations allows for lengthy research projects that would otherwise not be possible: nutrition research, long-term soil development, etc. See Research on OSALT L:ands.
OSALT's educational programs are primarily land-based. By holding many different kinds of lands in trust, educational programs have sites for a broad array of classes, workshops and tours, exposing participants to a diverse mix of sites: urban and rural, farm and forest, cultivated and wild, and in different stages of sustainable development. See Education for more information about OSALT's education activities.
