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County announces $100M initiative for farmland preservation County Executive Steve Bellone holds up a 1970 issue of Newsday that featured a cover story on the farmland preservation effort that officials now hope to see finished. (Credit: Joe Werkmeister) As they celebrate their 20th year farming organic vegetables, fruit and flowers along Sound Avenue in Riverhead, Chris and Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht can’t help but think about the future like so many other farmers. The couple put “their heart and soul” into Garden of Eve Organic Farm and Market on property that was already saved once from development a generation ago. “My dad bought it from a developer in 1977,” Ms. Kaplan-Walbrecht said. “And here we are all these years later and it’s still a farm.”

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