Lifeline Farm runs an internship program aimed at training the next generation of farmers and teaching them the “old fashioned” ways of agriculture.

“We need more farmers, and somebody needs to train them,” says Brieger. “We wanted future farmers to have the opportunity to operate this farm someday and knew that meant we’d need to permanently lower the land’s value by removing development rights through the conservation easement. Because if those farmers had to pay development prices, this land would certainly not stay in ag production.”