Green Acreages Guide

Ownership of small acreages, hobby farms and recreational properties is growing. Increasingly, these property owners are searching for information on how best to manage their properties in a sustainable manner.

Stewardship for Small Acreages

The Green Acreages Guide is a workbook developed especially for acreage, hobby farm and recreational property owners, to help them develop and implement stewardship practices that conserve and protect the valuable natural assets, such as air, land, water, wildlife, associated with their properties.

The Guide is organized into modules. Each module begins with an overview of an issue and background information, includes relevant legislation, offers examples of beneficial management practices and provides sources of additional information. At the end of each module, worksheets allow acreage owners to evaluate how they manage their property.

The Green Acreages Guide:

• Increases acreage owners’ knowledge of appropriate land and natural resource management practices.
• Supports acreage owners in completing a resource inventory and planning exercise, and develop short and long‑term stewardship goals for their property.
• Helps acreage owners identify strategies to best manage the natural assets on their land.
• Assists acreage owners to gain an awareness and understanding of relevant bylaws and regulations.
• Provides acreage owners with additional stewardship resources and contact information.

Here’s a sample of what you will find in the Green Acreage Guide:

• Table of Contents and Introduction (PDF 358 KB)
• Chapter 2 – Things to Consider When Buying an Acreage or Rural Property (partial) (PDF 190 KB)
• Chapter 3 – Property Evaluation and Goal Setting (partial) (PDF 250 KB)

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The Green Acreages Guide is only $29.95 plus GST (price includes shipping within Canada). Email info@landstewardship.org or phone us toll free at 1–877-727–5276 ext. 221 to place your order.

Acknowledgements

We offer sincere thanks to the numerous individuals and organizations who were involved in and contributed to this project. Their donations, support, guidance and information have been indispensable to the creation of the Green Acreages Guide. We also wish to recognize the following partner organizations for contributing funding to this project:

• Alberta Ecotrust
• TD Friends of the Environment Foundation
• Government of Alberta
• Fisheries and Oceans Canada