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After five years of exemplary leadership, Julia Farr has stepped down from her role as Executive Director of the Kingston Land Trust (KLT). She has passed her responsibilities to the staff shared leadership team who have guided the organization with her for the past two years.

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-- Harambee establishes a conservation easement with the Kingston Land Trust to forever protect the sacred site--

 

Today, title to the site of the African Burial Ground on Pine Street in Kingston was transferred to the African-American heritage organization, Harambee, from the Kingston Land Trust (KLT) with...

News about: Pine St. African Burial Ground, KLT-Protected Land

-- To preserve forested limestone terrain, historic quarry and lime kilns for ecological management and community engagement--

The Kingston Land Trust (KLT) has protected six acres of forest and an historic quarry and lime kilns in the City of Kingston’s hamlet of Wilbur. The land acquired by the...

News about: Protect Your Land, KLT-Protected Land
Do you visit or travel the Kingston Greenline regularly? Interested in trail monitoring, trail stewardship, or volunteering to support trails in Kingston? Sign up to become a Trail Ranger! 
News about: Kingston Greenline
After a whirlwind awareness and fundraising campaign in 2019, we successfully protected the Pine Street African Burial Ground in partnership with Harambee and in collaboration with Scenic Hudson. Since then, we have continued to work with Harambee and other community partners to steward and plan for the future of this sacred site.
News about: Solidarity Through Land, Pine St. African Burial Ground

Looking for a way to improve your community’s health and promote conservation at the same time?  You could try planting fruit trees in the floodplain.  This was the idea behind Kingston Land Trust’s edible stream buffer along the banks of the Esopus Creek. 

Stream buffers help prevent flooding by providing...

News about: KLT-Protected Land
Cyph Culture, a local youth hip hop group will be hosting a youth talent showcase on November 2nd from 1 to 4pm at Kingston’s Academy Green called Awakening Paths: Youth in the Spotlight: Our Past, Our Future. This free community event will highlight the Pine Street African Burial Ground and has been developed in collaboration with Harambee, Kingston Land Trust and Center for Creative Education.
News about: Pine St. African Burial Ground

 

The application deadline has been extended until Tuesday, October 22nd for the Kingston YMCA Farm Project’s five-month youth employment program for the design of a memorial site at the Pine Street African Burial Ground. This sacred land was protected in May by the Kingston Land Trust in...

News about: Pine St. African Burial Ground