New Opportunities With Ag Land Trust

Our featured GIIP partner is the organization Ag Land Trust, based in Salinas, California. Ag Land Trust works to preserve farmland to benefit the farmers of the Central Coast, having preserved over 20,000 acres of farmland through easements. Virginia Jameson, the associate director of Ag Land Trust, is a GIIP alumna who has been working with current fellow Melissa Birdwell-Marchi since 2007, when Melissa worked to convert the files of Ag Land Trust from paper to electronic data. Continuing on this project, Melissa is now creating an online database for the organization, which will allow Ag Land Trust board members to access needed information wherever they go.

Jameson is a very successful grant-writer, who spoke to current GIIP students on Thursday June 3rd about grant-writing and how GIIP has helped her succeed.