The Center, established in 2006, resides at Ohio State University, and is
associated with the OSU Extension Services. Our mission is to enable communities
to achieve farmland protection policy priorities by partnering on innovative
projects and providing needed programming. We work to spread local seeds of
invention. To achieve our mission, the Center works directly with communities on
innovative policy demonstrations/models, writes policy briefs that are timely
and locally relevant, maintains a communication network, and hosts an annual
state-wide farmland policy meeting (the largest of in the country, according to
the American Farmland Trust).