Pennsylvania Preserves 40 More Farms

The farms protected at Thursday’s meeting of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Land Preservation Board exemplify the diversity of the state’s agriculture products and the people that grow them, Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding said.

The preservation board preserved 40 farms covering 2,760 acres across the following 17 counties: Allegheny, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bucks, Centre, Chester, Indiana, Lackawanna, Lancaster Lebanon, Lehigh, Mercer, Mifflin, Montgomery, Northampton, and Union.

Since the program began in 1988, federal, state, county, and local governments have purchased permanent easeme...