Linda and I just received the final approval from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for our farmland preservation application. We had put our 13 acres into the program about six years ago. Since then we bought ten acres from my uncle Leon and Aunt Helen, and we applied for that acreage.
The program requires that you must have 50 acres unless your land borders already preserved farmland, in which case you only need ten. Since our land bordered farmland leased by the Army Corps of Engineers, we qualified with our 13 acres. Our recently purchased 10 acres also qualified.
Under the program, the farm may never be developed. If our daughter inherits, she must keep the land in farmland--or at least open space if she doesn’t wish to farm. If we sell our land, it must remain as farmland or open space. It’s a deed restriction as the lawyers say, “in perpetuity.”
I love the idea that developers can never develop our farm.
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