In the early seventies the Norwalk Land Trust received its first acre on Hollow Spring Road. Today there are 67.4 acres of land being held by the Land Trust, including a 3 acre island at the entrance to Village Creek, and the Farm Creek Salt meadow between McKinley and Sammis streets in Rowayton. The size of Land Trust holdings range from 14+ acres to a half acre.

By tirelessly speaking out about the importance of open space in our landscape, the Land Trust helped the city acquire the 9 acre Fodor Farm and 8 acres downstream from Woods Pond in the Betts Brook watershed. Both properties were headed for dense housing developments.