Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) is trying to save local farms through donors which helps support having clean water and air, locally grown good, scenic beauty and a place for wildlife and people to flourish. The farms that POST protect are generally private and they announced Farmland Futures Initiative (FFI) where they deal with legal land protection, land acquisition, and strategic investments in farmland infrastructure. Their main goal is to triple the amount of farmland acreage and farm that are already protected. The FFI work with willing landowners to preserve or buy land with legal protections called conservation easements. These easements let the land remain in agricultural production while they are helping to fight and removing threats of development while protecting natural resources. The council of Land Trust of California is legally protecting Potrero Nuevo Farm through conservation easements. These councils of government have a liberating collection of local governments that increases coordination and communication within a certain area. This creates a neutral forum where leaders from local areas which are able to come together to discuss and diagnose problems of common worries. Councils have considerably increased and improved the operational capacity of rural local governments by providing facility to small local jurisdictions that cannot afford to hire specialized staff. All states in the U.S. have a department of community affairs where they have antipoverty programs. Potrero Nuevo farm donates part of its use of the land, farm equipment, harvest support and seed, and other materials to feed the homeless and the low income worker communities. Hence, why the council found it substantial to save the farms and help them be protected
Early adopter of an easement that will guarantee agricultural land production in San Mateo County.
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