ABSTRACT
The non-profit Land Stewardship Project (LSP) began in 1982 as an organization dedicated to fostering an ethic of stewardship toward farmland in the Midwest. It grew out of a rural humanities education program, known as the American Farm Project. Having just celebrated its 15th year, LSP is actively working on a variety of projects focusing on farmland protection and sustainable agriculture. Currently, LSP's farmland protection work includes strengthening the recently passed Community-Based Planning Act, which provides a statewide framework of 11 sustainable development goals to guide local planning. Simultaneously, LSP is leading a coalition of seven private and public organizations to develop a Green Corridor through two counties in the Twin Cities Metropolitan area. During the next several years, LSP's farmland protection work will include making the Community-Based Planning Act a successful and effective framework for local planning. Much of the work of LSP's 1000 Friends of Minnesota program culminated with the 1997 passage of the Community-Based Planning Act (CBPA).
