The same week that Kittery voters approved the town’s first open-space bond on June 11, providing $150,000 toward the conservation easement for Rustlewood Farm, the Kittery Land Trust learned that it was also awarded a $150,000 grant from the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation toward conservation of the farm.
The news puts the land trust over the finish line in its efforts to raise funds for the purchase of agricultural easements on the 300-acre Johnson family farm. They expect to purchase the easements on the property by fall 2013.