Simply Streep is your premiere source on Meryl Streep's work on film, television and in the theatre - a career that has won her three Academy Awards and the praise to be one of the world's greatest working actresses. Created in 1999, we have built an extensive collection to discover Miss Streep's work through an archive of press articles, photos and video clips. Enjoy your stay.
Explore the Meryl Streep archives
Discover Meryl's work by year, medium or start a search
Connecticut Farmland Trust

Established in 2002, the Connecticut Farmland Trust is the only private statewide conservation organization dedicated solely to permanently protecting Connecticut’s farmland. The Connecticut Farmland Trust holds agricultural conservation easements that protect 2,096 acres of farmland on 26 farms around the state, has assisted partners in the preservation of 789 additional acres, and serves as a leading resource on conserving Connecticut’s working farmland.

Meryl Streep served as a Honorary Chairwoman at the 2002 Celebration of Connecticut Farms, a benefit for the preservation of the state’s farmlands that took place at Averill Farm in Washington Depot. The issue of farm preservation was the reason that the Hartford Food System, the Connecticut Farmland Trust and the Working Land Alliance hosted the event, to benefit their year-round work on this issue. If the state continues to lose farmland to development at its present rate – 9,000 acres a year – Connecticut will have no farms by the middle of this century. “I don’t know about you, but 50 years go by very fast,” Streep said in her comments. A member of a community-supported agriculture farm in northwest Connecticut, where the actress and her family have lived for the past 22 years, she urged her listeners to “remember that no farms means no food. It would be crazy to let this precious resource be paved over and developed,” Streep said. “If we lose our farms, we lose a part of our heritage.”

www.simplystreep.com