Conversations On Building Community…

Flowers in a garden

The summer months offer a unique opportunity to connect with others. It’s during these warmer days that we often happen upon chance encounters – people getting out and doing extraordinary…

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Healing By Growing Farms Annual Conference

Conference attendees sitting at round tables with a presentation happening at the front of the room

On Saturday, May, 18th CLCC tabled and sponsored Healing By Growing Farms’ 2nd Northeast Disability & Agriculture Conference, themed “My Voice, My Narrative.” The day was filled with personable and…

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Defining Conservation in Fairfield County

Group attending the workshop at the New Canaan Library

At the beginning of April, land trust board representatives from lower Fairfield County gathered at the recently redeveloped New Canaan Library in New Canaan, Connecticut for a CLCC-facilitated workshop. Representatives…

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Birding in the Park

Group of people gathered outside with a man looking through a scope and a child watching

On April 21, we held our second joint bird walk with Outdoor Afro-Connecticut at Westmoor Park in West Hartford. It was wonderful to see new faces joining our experienced birders,…

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Reflections from Summit on Land Use in Connecticut

Double image with the top showing the grassroots panel and the bottom showing the grassroots panel

CLCC recently hosted our 3rd Annual Winter Summit, focusing this year’s event on Land Use in Connecticut: Connecting Grasstops to Grassroots. Over the past three years, we have used these…

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Announcing 2024 Winter Summit

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Join us for the 2024 CLCC Winter Summit on Land Use in Connecticut: Connecting Grasstops to Grassroots Learn more about the summit » Register today » The 2024 Winter Summit…

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A New Resource for Reflection

Yellow Trail Autumn Morning

The holiday season is officially underway! This time of year allows us to reconnect, get closer to our loved ones, and reflect on another year of lessons. It also calls…

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Joshua’s Trust Awarded Grant for Trail Accessibility

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This past year, CLCC facilitated another series of Regional Advancement Initiative programming in Northeast Connecticut: Inclusive and Accessible Conservation for All. Building on our previous efforts in this region, this…

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Expanding Farmland Access

Greenhouse

CLCC is honored to be mentioned in an article by Morning Ag Clips. In partnership with the CT Department of Agriculture, CLCC will undertake a study to examine land access…

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Bird, Hike, Learn & Laugh

Members of Outdoor Afro stand in a semi circle reflecting on the bird walk.

There is an often overlooked joy to the process of discovery, of learning and understanding, and of creating a deeper connection to the “extraordinary ordinary.” Birds are everywhere, coming in…

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Advocating Together: An Act Concerning Climate Change Adaptation

Executive Director Amy Paterson takes a photo of a river flanked by by trees

Audubon Connecticut Connecticut Land Conservation Council Northwest CT Land Conservancy Roxbury Land Trust Steep Rock Association Towns of Ridgefield and Bethel and so many more! In early March, CLCC and Audubon Connecticut issued a…

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