Northam Forest Carbon’s mission is to bring carbon sequestration and storage to Vermont landowners.
Vermont is blessed with a remarkable group of experienced land stewards, foresters, wildlife biologists, watershed experts, land planners and more all dedicated to preserving our natural resources. From Vermont Forests, Parks and Recreation to Vermont Fish and Wildlife to land trusts and UVM and the State University of Vermont, Vermont Coverts, Vermont Woodlands, many organizations have been instrumental in working with landowners to actively and passively manage our forests. NFC works with many of these entities to connect landowners to expertise and programs available to directly assist landowners. What we bring to the table is the hands-on experience of applying these resources to our land over many years.
The Why
Over the five decades we’ve been actively managing our property at Jockey Hill Farm, Tim and his family have seen many changes to their land and adjacent lands most recently in the last two decades with the advent of climate change. Having inherited the land from three generations before him since the 1930s, our family feels a strong commitment to looking out another 80 years to what the land could look like at the turn of the century. Jockey Hill Farm has been enjoyed by Tim’s family for six generations. What can Tim and his wife’s grandchildren, Abe and Faye, expect to see happen to the land over the next 80 years? Who knows but it’s fun to contemplate.
What We Do
NFC coordinates with other landowners and organizations across the State through collaborative field trips, online and in-person presentations, one on one tours of our farm, Jockey Hill Farm and other properties where we’re implementing a wide range of land management strategies, visits to other landowner properties, and our website which hosts a resources page with our own materials as well as links to other helpful resources.
Individually our impact may be small but together we can make a significant difference.
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Tim Stout
Founder and Principal
Tim Stout is the Founder and Principal of Northam Forest Carbon. As a private landowner in Shrewsbury, Vermont over the last 40 years, Tim and his family have dedicated four decades to preserving 400 acres of pristine forest and fields in central Vermont at the base of Calvin Coolidge State Forest. A core theme of Tim’s work in the last ten years has been managing this land to address climate change mitigation and adaptation. As the science behind this focus evolves rapidly, Tim and his family continue to adopt numerous land management strategies that can help adapt and mitigate the direct impacts of climate change. Tim collaborates extensively with other landowners across Vermont to explore the success of these strategies while working with a broad range of experts from the State of Vermont, universities, landowner and environmental groups and other such entities.
Prior to his forestry management work, Tim’s career focused on national energy policy. Most recently as a senior advisor at E Source, an energy consulting firm in Boulder, Colorado, Tim worked with utilities across North America. Prior to this role, Tim held a number of senior leadership positions in energy efficiency at National Grid, an electricity and gas utility serving more than 20 million customers in the Northeast. He holds an MA from Boston University and a BA from Middlebury College.
Besides managing his land in Shrewsbury, Tim was a steward of open space in Wayland, Massachusetts for many years. Tim worked with a dedicated group of visionaries to manage Heard Farm in the center of Wayland where they planted a successful 10 acre orchard and reestablished a 50 year orchard that was in serious decline. Heard Farm has many magnificent walking paths and an impressive population of bobolinks.
Tim serves on the Board of Directors for the American Forest Foundation and Vermont Coverts.
Tim and his wife reside on the shores of Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont.
