Julia Freedgood leads American Farmland Trust’s Farmland Protection and Growing Local programs, including our national farmland protection activities. She also oversees planning for agriculture projects to promote agriculture’s role in local and regional food systems, and the Farmland Information Center, a clearinghouse for farmland protection information that serves 70,000 people annually.

She joined the staff in 1989 and directed a variety of American Farmland Trust programs, including the technical assistance and land protection divisions. Freedgood is nationally recognized for developing Cost of Community Services (COCS) studies, a standard method for evaluating the cost of preservation versus the cost of development, and has produced studies and publications such as Saving American Farmland: What Works and Does Farmland Protection Pay?: The Cost of Community Services in Three Massachusetts Towns.

Before joining AFT, she was executive director of the Federation of Massachusetts Farmers Markets and a researcher in the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts University. She holds a B.A. in U.S. social and economic history from Hampshire College and an M.S. from the School of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts.

Contact Information
1200 18th St. NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 378-1205
jfreedgood@farmland.org