The Pi-Day snow storm (3/14) led to the rescheduling of town ballot voting in a number of area towns, including Hopkinton where I live. This provides extra days to encourage Hopkinton voters to vote for Sabrina Dunlap for select board. Sabrina has.
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EXETER â On May 4, the Southeast Land Trust of NH (SELT) completed a conservation easement on Clarke Farm, a 300-acre, grass-based livestock operation that straddles the towns of Newmarket and Epping. Jack and Linda Clarke originally purchased the property in 1977. The farm raises cattle and sheep on pasture, selling their meats into the local food market.
A 175-acre portion of the property will be secured with an Agricultural Land Easement (ALE), ensuring that the land will be preserved for agricultural use forever. Another 33 acres of forested wetlands on the property will also be protected by the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Portsmouth Herald
EXETER – The Southeast Land Trust of NH recently completed a conservation easement on Clarke Farm, a 300-acre, grass-based livestock operation that straddles the towns of Newmarket and Epping.
Jack and Linda Clarke originally purchased the property in 1977. The farm raises cattle and sheep on pasture, selling their meats into the local food market.
A 175-acre portion of the property will be secured with an Agricultural Land Easement (ALE), ensuring that the land will be preserved for agricultural use forever. Another 33 acres of forested wetlands on the property will also be protected by the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
“There are so many reasons why conserving this property is important, but the heart of why we’re doing this is to protect our local farms and our ability to produce food here in New Hampshire,” said Jeremy Lougee, conservation project manager and farmland coordinator for SELT. “One of the many things we’ve learned fro
Hopkinton purchase of 5.7 acres will preserve Contoocook River shoreline
The land that the Chesley family sold to the Hopkinton Conservation Commission in Contoocook on Tuesday, January 19, 2020. MELISSA CURRAN Monitor staff
A thousand feet of Contoocook River shoreline has been bought by the town of Hopkinton for continued recreation and agriculture but not development; the 5.7-acre site across the river from Bohanan Farm, with 1,100 feet of river shoreline. MELISSA CURRAN / Monitor staff
Shoreline across the river from Bohanan Farm has been bought by Hopkinton for recreation and agriculture. MELISSA CURRAN / Monitor staff
A thousand feet of Contoocook River shoreline has been bought by the town of Hopkinton for continued recreation and agriculture, but not development; the 5.7-acre site across the river from Bohanan Farm, with 1,100 feet of river shoreline. MELISSA CURRAN / Monitor staff