Lake Seneca Irrigation Project

In New York, TGBF is supporting both grant writing and partial engineering costs for an innovative irrigation project.

Key collaborators include grant writer Juan Whiting, engineer James Bastille, and RA pioneer Klaas Martens. The project aims to utilize water from Lake Seneca and an adjacent power plant to create a vast network of irrigation pipes beneath a railroad, serving 130 farms that practice or are transitioning to RA under Martens’ guidance. This initiative represents the first irrigation district of its kind in New York and possibly the eastern United States. Designed for future scalability, it serves as a model that can be replicated nationwide to promote healthy, sustainable food production while addressing climate change through carbon sequestration—an approach endorsed by the Paris Peace Accord.