Your land and vision. A plan for what comes next.
Trask is a land stewardship platform being developed by Cerridwen for farmers, landowners, and the organizations that support them.
It brings your property information and stewardship plans together, giving you a practical way to organize your work and build a record of how your land changes over time.
Let's get our hands dirty.
Every property has its own challenges and opportunities. You bring firsthand experience and a sense of what matters to you. Trask is built to complement that knowledge with relevant land data and trusted resources, helping you develop your vision and put it into practice.
Whether you're managing a working farm, improving a newly acquired property, or advising others on their land, good planning makes it easier to use your time and resources well.
Put the right information to work.
The conditions on your land shape what is possible and where to focus your effort. Trask is designed to bring maps and reliable information about soil, terrain, and growing conditions into the decisions you're making for each part of your property.
Trask helps you consider that information alongside your own observations and assessments. See how conditions relate to the goals in your stewardship plan and identify practical next steps.
The value is in making more informed choices about the work ahead and revisiting those choices as conditions change.
Give your vision a plan.
Start by setting your vision and intentions for the land, even if you're still working out the details. Trask is designed to help you shape them into a thorough, actionable stewardship plan informed by the characteristics of your property.
Develop goals for the whole property or individual zones, then organize the projects and tasks needed to make progress. Keep the work manageable and grounded in your priorities.
As your circumstances change, your plan can change with them.
Whether your focus is farm productivity, soil health, woodland management, or habitat restoration, the plan remains yours to shape.
Every season adds to the story.
The results of stewardship often take time to see.
Trask is designed to help you document the work you've done through observations, photographs, and records of your projects. Follow changes in your land and compare progress with the goals you've set.
Over the years, that history becomes a resource in its own right. It can help you make better decisions, explain the value of your work, and pass along knowledge to the next person responsible for the property.
Work together around a shared plan.
Trask is being developed for conservation districts, extension programs, agricultural advisors, and other organizations that work directly with land stewards.
With the landowner's permission, partners will be able to collaborate on stewardship plans, follow progress, and support multiple properties from one place, while each landowner's goals and decisions stay at the center of the relationship.
The landowner decides
Landowners invite partners, choose which properties they can see, and can end a partnership at any time.
One portfolio for every client
See every landowner you support, and the invitations waiting on either side, from one place.
Assign the right people
Choose which members of your team work with each landowner.
The work stays with the land
Everything a partner adds belongs to the landowner and stays with the plan when the partnership ends.
Make your work easier to share.
Many funding programs require an established stewardship plan and supporting documentation, and a well-maintained plan helps advisors understand your intentions and progress.
Trask organizes your goals, activities, and records so you can clearly show what you intend to accomplish and the progress you've made. Planned reporting will help you prepare documentation for supported funding pathways, beginning with selected forestry and agricultural lending needs.
Know where you stand
Readiness checks show how your plan measures up for funding, stewardship programs, partnerships, and compliance or certification requirements, and take you straight to what’s missing.
A report for each program
Each program's report follows its own template, whether it's for a funder, a partner, or a certification, as a PDF to send and as data to share.
Plans for formal programs
Shape one stewardship plan to fit the grant, cost-share, stewardship, and certification programs that call for one, without starting over for each.
Production plans for lenders
Crops, acreage, and expected yields come from your plan; add prices and expenses to project income by season.
Bring in past years
Import earlier years' profit and loss from your accounting software or a spreadsheet, without re-entering it.
A record of every report
See who made each report and when, and download it again whenever you need it.
Help shape Trask.
We're developing Trask with an initial focus on Oregon and a longer-term goal of supporting land stewards nationwide.
We're interested in hearing from people who work the land and the organizations that support them. If you'd like to see the product designs, discuss your needs, or explore a partnership, we'd welcome the conversation.