In mid-February of 1989, Pennsylvania entered a new phase in its efforts to preserve the Commonwealth’s farmland resources.  A statewide program to purchase agricultural conservation easements (also commonly referred to as “development rights”).  Farmers whose land is included in an Agricultural Security Area will be eligible to sell conservation easements, on a voluntary basis to a county agricultural land preservation board.  Northampton County preserved its first farm in 1993 in Lower Mount Bethel Township.

An agricultural conservation easement is the property owner’s right to prevent the development or improvement of the land for any purpose other than agricultural production.  It is a legally binding contract that runs with the land.  By selling the “development rights”, it prevents that land from ever being developed.

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Contact Northampton County Farmland Preservation Program

14 Gracedale Ave
Nazareth, Pennsylvania  18064
Phone: 610-829-6287
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