Isabella Rossellini Donates Over 20 Acres To Peconic Land Trust For Organic Farm

Internationally acclaimed actress, filmmaker, and philanthropist Isabella Rossellini has donated the development rights to 20.8 acres of land in the Hamlet of Brookhaven to the Peconic Land Trust. The land will be put into agricultural production by Ms. Rossellini working with the Trust and farmer Patty Gentry of Early Girl Farm to establish an organic farm on the property. The Peconic Land Trust will assist with the leasing arrangements as well as with the infrastructure necessary to support these farming businesses, including irrigation and fencing as needed.

“Ms. Rossellini’s conservation of this property is truly a gift to the Brookhaven community,” Peconic Land Trust President John v.H. Halsey said in a press release. “The potential existed for this to become another subdivision. Now it will join other conserved farmland and open... more