Meeting with Javier Cruz of NRCS

We recently met with Javier Cruz of the Connecticut Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) on a beautiful day up on our land. We should have done this long ago, or as soon as Joan Nichols mentioned it way back last winter. Javier explained to us how the NRCS can help us with good conservation practices as we set up our vineyard and accompanying buildings. One of the programs that the NRCS has is the identification of the trees in the forest on our land by a Connecticut state certified forester. This is important to us because we do have to open up a little of the land to the east of the north field in order to get more sunlight into the field. In the process, we want to know if we can save the trees that we would have to cut down for future use in the construction of our buildings. The CT NRCS can also help us with irrigation of the vineyard. This would involve a CT certified irrigation engineer. Javier gave us a one page sheet of instructions that we have to follow in order to be eligible for the programs that fall under the NRCS purview. It really would behoove us to form a Limited Liability Company (LLC) as soon as possible, so that we can get a Federal Tax ID to take advantage of the NRCS programs.