{"id":27717,"date":"2023-10-05T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=27717"},"modified":"2023-10-04T10:21:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T14:21:28","slug":"maryland-permanently-preserves-twenty-seven-working-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2023\/10\/05\/maryland-permanently-preserves-twenty-seven-working-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Permanently Preserves Twenty-Seven Working Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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4,600 Acres of Additional Farmland Protected Forever<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

ANNAPOLIS, MD<\/b> (October 5, 2023)<\/strong> \u2013 The Maryland Board of Public Works<\/strong> approved 27 new Maryland Agricultural Preservation Foundation easements during their October 4 meeting. The easements will permanently preserve 4,600 acres of prime farmland in Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Garrett, Kent, Queen Anne\u2019s<\/span>, and Wicomico counties, for an investment of more than $16.9 million.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPreserving Maryland farmland is incredibly beneficial to its citizens,\u201d said Maryland Department of Agriculture Secretary Kevin Atticks<\/strong>. \u201cBy preventing irreversible conversion of farmland to other uses, we protect our local food supply and our local economy. I am grateful to the landowners that volunteered to preserve these 4,600 acres of farmland.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Maryland Agricultural Preservation Foundation<\/strong> was established in 1977 as part of the Maryland Department of Agriculture.The foundation purchases agricultural preservation easements from willing farmers to forever protect prime farmland and woodland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To view a list of the Maryland Agricultural Preservation Foundation easements broken down by county, see <\/span>this list<\/span><\/a>. The newly-approved easements will help the state meet its newly-enacted goal of conserving 30% of state land by 2030. The new goal went into effect on October 1st in accordance with the <\/span>Maryland the Beautiful Act<\/span><\/a> as passed in the 2023 Session by the Maryland General Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information, please contact the foundation\u2019s Executive Director Michelle Cable at (410) 841-5860 or <\/span>michelle.cable@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter <\/span>@MdAgDept<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

4,600 Acres of Additional Farmland Protected Forever ANNAPOLIS, MD (October 5, 2023) \u2013 The Maryland Board of Public Works approved 27 new Maryland Agricultural Preservation Foundation easements during their October 4 meeting. The easements will permanently preserve 4,600 acres of prime farmland in Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Garrett, Kent, Queen Anne\u2019s, and Wicomico  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27719,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27717\/revisions\/27719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}