WHEN: Wednesday September 20, 1995 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds
5055 Ann Arbor-Saline Road (between Ann Arbor and Saline, Michigan)
Tom Daniels, Director of Lancaster County (PA) Agriculture Land Preservation
Board and Jeff Fry, Farmer and Participant in the Lancasater County (PA)
program will talk about the successful adoption of a countywide Purchase
of Development Rights (PDR) program in 1988. In a PDR program, land is
permanently protected when the development rights of a parcel of land
are purchased and retired from a willing landowner. Since the program's
inception, the county has protected over ten thousand acres and over one hundred
farms, preserving much of Pennsylvania's rural character in the face of
intense development pressure.
This educational forum is co-sponsored by: Washtenaw County Farm Bureau,
Washtenaw County Agriculture Lands Committee, Washtenaw County Extension
Service, Michigan Environmental Council and Michigan Integrated Food and
Farming Systems. For more information, call Steve Solowczak ("Solo-chek") at 313-663-3141 or Nancy
Thelen at 313-971-0079
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Meg Moynihan, Coordinator "If an egg falls on a rock,
MIFFS: Michigan Integrated too bad, too bad for the egg.
Food & Farming Systems If a rock falls on an egg,
moynihaj@msuces.canr.msu.edu too bad for the egg!"
--The Egg & the Rock,
Faith Pettrick