From GoodGiving to GREAT Giving! Bluegrass Gives (formerly the GoodGiving Challenge) is our region’s biggest online giving event, happening Giving Tuesday, December 2, from 6am to midnight. By donating, you will help Bluegrass Land Conservancy continue our work to preserve the vital farmland, greenspaces, and landscapes that make the Bluegrass so special!
Over the past 30 years, Bluegrass Land Conservancy (BLC) has saved over 38,000 acres from future development. Preserving these lands means so much to the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. Land conservation protects prime agricultural soils, maintains clean waterways, keeps working family farms in production, encourages tourism to flock to our iconic landscapes, protects our unique wildlife habitats and natural shared spaces, and connects us to history, saving cultural and historical properties.
Why make a donation to Bluegrass Land Conservancy?
Bluegrass Land Conservancy works on a daily basis with landowners across the region to protect land through voluntary conservation easements. Conservation easements protect the land in perpetuity, which requires BLC to steward the land forever. Your donation makes this possible.
Your donation is a promise for the future:
Each community will need a bit of quiet open space to treasure. We’ll need places to grow our food, too. Our kids will always have a place that they can look to, and know that their legacy is part of the fabric of the community. Whether or not they choose to live here, they can come back and see a farm or woods. As a family, we now have a sense of pride knowing that our land is no longer at risk of massive development. – Jim & Gayle Kane, Landowners who lost their first farm to encroaching development. Their new farm is protected forever thanks to conservation easement through BLC.
Along the Kentucky bourbon trail there are some historic rural distilleries, and those rural distilleries exist because of a water source. This is the birthplace of bourbon because of our natural limestone water, our local farms, and our local forests for supplying oak. Nobody else has that combination. It’s very important to maintain that balance and protect what is special today for future generations so it’s not lost. – Chris Morris, Master Distiller Emeritus, Woodford Reserve
For Kentucky, one of the most amazing resources we have is our land and our landscape. It is our landscape and our landscape-based resources that drive a lot of tourism. What we’re doing really affects everybody in the area, not just the people who live in the more rural areas but also the people who live in the heart of our cities. – Jessie Hancock, BLC Executive Director
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