What makes YOU love the LAND?

Please share your story with us!!

The Peconic Land Trust is collecting stories from our supporters - people just like you - about what motivates you to support conservation.  Your stories are important to us and will help us to improve how we work to conserve Long Island's rural heritage.  Click here to share with us!  Please let us know if you mind if we share your story - we promise to have your permission before we share anything you write with others.  Even if you don't want us to share your story, we'd still love to hear it!

Nancy & Richard's Story

In December of 2001, Richard Wines & Nancy Gilbert donated a conservation easement on Winds Way - their beautiful property located in Jamesport, in the Town of Riverhead.  The conservation easement protects approximately 9.9 acres of agricultural land, as well as a scenic woodland with wetlands along Great Peconic Bay.  The easement also protects the facades of their historic buildings, including a Greek Revival-style single-family residence and an 1972 one-room schoolhouse, which were moved from other locations.  The property is planted with an apple orchard and stunning flower and vegetable gardens.  Nancy and Richard share a great love of their land, but they realize that "land conservation is first and foremost about people.  It is people, after all, who love this beautiful place - people who live, work and vacation here.  And it is only by working with people that we can understand our relationship to the land and how it informs our sense of community."

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