CUMBERLAND — Garrett County has been approved to receive a $1.3 million Rural Legacy Program grant to acquire conservation easements to protect its most productive working farms, standing timber, scenic
Students in eight rural Nebraska schools will soon be getting hands-on experience in "specialty crop" production thanks to a two-year U.S. Department of Agriculture grant awarded to the Center for Rural Affairs. Kirstin Bailey is senior project associate at the center and lead staff on the Nebraska Young Farmer Program: Introducing Specialty Crop Production. .
The Maryland Board of Public Works recently approved the preservation of several working farms. The Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation purchased 14 new agricultural easements across nine counties in the state representing more than 1,400 acres. The program purchases development rights from farmers so the land will be kept as farmland in perpetuity. .
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