TEAL FARM CENTER IN HUNTINGTON, VT-TEAL FARM Teal Farm has been reconfigured for sale as Teal Farm Center. Seller-Foundation For A Sustainable Future has decided to retain the majority of Teal Farm’s land to further the Foundation’s conservation-based mission. Foundation founder and executive director, Melissa Hoffman, recognizes that well-stewarded properties this size are rare, and that parcel-fragmentation due to financial pressures is namely to blame. ”It was a tremendous effort to put the almost 1,300-acre Farm back together, and it seems a shame to break it up, especially when it could be used to advance the Foundation’s goals of regenerative land use and ecological integrity,” said Hoffman of her recent decision to reconfigure what her Foundation was selling. Keeping the majority of the property will allow the Foundation to continue to work on implementing the ideas expressed in the Master Plan created by Ben Falk of Whole Systems Design. Not only will the new owner of Teal Farm Center live within the Foundation’s massive holding, enjoying what is arguably the premier view site of the entire Farm, but they will be given use and access opportunities to consider, that are commensurate with the Foundation’s mission, as part of their purchase of the Farm Center. Access to productive farm and forest land is cost-prohibitive these days. ”Ideally,” says Hoffman, “I would like all the creative work the Foundation has done on integrated food-energy-building systems design and implementation to be accessible to more people, so that Teal can become a viable educational resource.” Depending on who the new owner of Teal Farm Center is, and what their needs and goals are, “part of the beauty of only offering the building complex and orchard installation is to keep acquisition costs as low as possible, while availing the new owner of access to surrounding lands at below-market costs, says Hoffman.