RECIPIENTS OF ROUND XI FARMLAND PROTECTION GRANTS

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LONG ISLAND

The County will partner with the Town of Riverhead to protect three farms. Totino Nursery is a 35-acre nursery operation with 100% high quality soils and which adjoins protected farms on three of its borders. Zaweski Farm is a 24-acre sod farm operation with 100% high quality soils. Hodun Farm is a 74-acre vegetable operation with 100% high quality soils.

The Town will protect two farms, totaling 39 acres. The Demchak Farm, founded in 1991, is a 15-acre farm leased to a sod operation with 94% prime soils. It adjoins a 12.6-acre protected farm and is part of a block of more than 150 acres of agricultural land, 94 of which are protected, without separation by a public road. The Kauneckas Farm, circa 1940, is a 24-acre farm leased to a grain farmer with 94% prime soils. It adjoins a 42-acre protected farm and is part of a block of more than 170 acres of agricultural land, 95 of which are protected, without separation by public road.

HUDSON VALLEY

The County will partner with Dutchess Land Conservancy to protect Sunset Ridge Farm, founded in 1981, a 208-acre dairy operation with 65% high quality soils. It has over 5,000ft of frontage along Webatuck Creek and adjoins two farms that are presently under contract to be protected. The farm is also listed with National Historic Register as one of the nine farms comprising the Coleman Station Historic District whose agricultural heritage dates back to the late 1700s.

The Town will partner with Open Space Conservancy to protect Glen Haven Farm, founded in 1999, a 112-acre livestock farm and greenhouse operation with 100% high quality soils that adjoins a 144-acre protected farm. The diversified farm operation includes Greenwich Orchids International, which sells orchids nationwide.

The Town will partner with Orange County Land Trust to protect the Kezialain Farm, founded in 1775, a 166-acre organic beef and horse-boarding operation with 50% statewide important soils, 3,000ft frontage along Tunkamose Creek, and that adjoins Laurel Hill Preserve and the Minisink Town Park. The farm’s woodland is a documented habitat for an federally designated endangered species of bat.

The Town will protect Bellvale Farms, founded in 1819, a 103-acre dairy and vegetable operation that also provides educational farm tours, and which has 98% high quality soils and adjoins a protected farm that is adjoined by two additional protected farms.

The County will partner with Open Space Conservancy to protect Arrowhead Farm, founded in 1911, is a 278-acre livestock, grain and hay operation with 32% prime and 31% statewide important soils and 2,000ft frontage along Roundout Creek.

The Town will partner with Open Space Conservancy to protect the Domino Farm, founded in 1955, a 126.6-acre dairy operation with 64% high quality soils and frontage along Kripplebush Creek. The farm has received New York’s “Super Milk” award for five consecutive years.

The County will partner with Watershed Agricultural Council to protect Stuart’s Family Farm, founded in 1828, a 170-acre fruit, flower, vegetable and cut-your-own Christmas tree farm with 65% high quality soils.

CAPITAL DISTRICT

The Town will partner with Columbia Land Conservancy to protect Shaker View Farm, founded in 1965, is a 202-acre dairy operation with 83% high quality soils and adjoins other protected lands, including a 950-acre farm and a 388-acre non-farm property.

The County will partner with Agricultural Stewardship Association to protect Hooskip Farm, founded in 1962, a 336-acre dairy operation with 33% high quality soils, 1.5 miles of frontage along the Hoosic River, and which has an additional 371 acres in Vermont that was previously protected. Nearly 200 acres of the farm’s woodlands are managed for timber, veneer logs and firewood, of which nearly 40,000 board feet of lumber was harvested to build the farm’s machine shop.

The Town will partner with Agricultural Stewardship Association to protect the Cannon Cattle Ranch, founded in 1979, which is a 388-acre dairy operation with 71% high quality soils and frontage along Otter Creek and a tributary to Otter Creek. Both streams drain into the Tomhannock Reservoir, the largest of three reservoirs providing drinking water to the City of Troy and surrounding communities.

The Town will partner with Agricultural Stewardship Association to protect Robe-Jan Farm, founded in 1957, a 115-acre dairy farm with 75% high quality soils and located in the headwaters and along Mill Hollow Brook and Kidney Creek, both tributaries to Hudson River.

The Town will protect Willow Marsh Farm, circa 1860s, a 134-acre dairy operation with 66% high quality soils. The Saratoga County Planning Department will assist the Town to complete its first farmland protection project.

The County will partner with Agricultural Stewardship Association to protect the Albert Slocum & Son Farm, a 324-acre farm leased in support of three local farms. The farm has 55% high quality soils, frontage along Ensign Brook and it abuts four protected farms, totaling 951 acres.

The County will partner with Agricultural Stewardship Association to protect the Clark Family Farm, founded in 1986, a 521-acre dairy and grain operation with 71% high quality soils and frontage along the Hoosic River. The farm adjoins two farms that are presently under contract to be protected and it also adjoins a 109-acre farm in Vermont that is also under contract to be protected.

The Town will partner with Agricultural Stewardship Association to protect the Stewart Farm, founded in 1959, a 230-acre dairy operation with 49% high quality soils and a half mile of frontage along Flately Brook that bisects this farm. Nearly 60 acres of this farm was previously protected.

MOHAWK VALLEY

The County will partner with New York Agricultural Land Trust to protect Kietzmann Farm, founded in 1908, a 240-acre dairy operation with 96% high quality soils and which adjoins 25 acres of protected wildlife habitat.

The County will partner with Otsego Land Trust to protect Ringwood Farm, founded in 1932, a 316-acre dairy operation with 66% high quality soils and a managed sugar bush that produces approximately 200 gallons of maple syrup each year. The farm is bisected by Cripple Creek, a tributary into Otsego Lake that includes a 30-acre riparian buffer.

CENTRAL NEW YORK

The County will protect McMahon’s E-Z Acres, founded in 1956, a 750-acre dairy farm with 80% high quality soils. McMahon’s have been recognized locally and nationally for their innovative dairy complex design and manure storage facility.

The Town will partner with Cazenovia Preservation Foundation to protect the Reed Farm, founded in 2004, a 434-acre dairy operation with 46% high quality soils. It abuts DeRuyter State Forest and frontage along Limestone Creek, which flows through the farm.

The Town will partner with Cazenovia Preservation Foundation to protect Greyrock Farm, founded in 1821, a 268-acre poultry and livestock operation with 72% high quality soils and frontage along two streams that empty into the Chittenango Creek, which is a popular trout fishing destination.

The County will partner with New York Agricultural Land Trust to protect Eagle Point Farms, a fourth generation family dairy operation founded more than 100 years ago and comprises of 1,106 acres with 72% high quality soils and frontage on Cross Lake and Seneca River.

FINGER LAKES

The County will partner with New York Agricultural Land Trust to protect two farms. Allen Farms (South), founded in the mid-1800s, is a 779-acre dairy operation with 88% prime soils. Wilde Farm, founded in 1875, is a 236-acre farm leased to a local dairy for feed crops and has 92% prime soils, and borders a farm that has also been funded in this round.

The Town will partner with New York Agricultural Land Trust to protect Gulliver Farms, founded in 1930, a 1,058-acre cash crop operation with 90% prime soils and which adjoins two farms that are presently under contract to be protected. Gulliver Farms was awarded Outstanding Farmer of the Year in 2003 by the Cayuga County Soil & Water Conservation District.

The Town will protect Hicks Farm, founded in late 1700s, an 82-acre cattle, fruit and vegetable operation that will be converted to a vineyard. It has 50% high quality soils and adjoins an 82-acre property under negotiation for a conservation easement.

The Town will partner with New York Agricultural Land Trust to protect Freier Farms, founded in the early 1900s, a 364-acre grain and hay operation with 88% high quality soils and frontage along the Seneca River-Cayuga Seneca Canal.

The Town will partner with Tompkins County to protect the 419-acre Sherman tract of Jerry Dell Farm, founded in 1949. This tract of the farm is made up of 79% statewide important soils and adjoins a 419-acre farm that is presently under contract to be protected. Jerry Dell Farm is the largest certified organic dairy in the Northeast with 700 cows on nearly 1,200 acres in two counties.

The Town will continue partnering with Tompkins County with this supplemental award to complete a project to permanently protect the Bensvue Farm, founded in 1946. The Town was awarded funding in the last round to protect this 942-acre dairy operation that is transitioning to organic. The farm has 64% high quality soils and adjoins one of the State’s 136 Important Bird Areas, two Unique Natural Areas designated by the County, a 33-acre nature preserve and a 5-acre cemetery. The farm also has 4,000ft frontage along Salmon Creek, a trout spawning stream, and has been named a "Lake Friendly Farm" by the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network.

The County will partner with Finger Lakes Land Trust to protect Henderson Farms, founded in 1928, a 457-acre cash crop, hay and vegetable operation with 100% prime soils and which adjoins a 200-acre farm that is presently under contract to be protected. Together, these protected farms will serve as an agricultural “gateway” to the southern entrance to the Village of Penn Yan.

WESTERN NEW YORK

The County will partner with Genesee Valley Conservancy to protect two farms. The Brady Farm, founded in 1918, is a 1,352-acre cash crop farm with 4,500 feet of frontage along Genesee River and a combined 2 miles of frontage along the Canaseraga, Buck Run and Keshequa Creeks. The Merrimac Farm, founded in 1946, is a 1,791-acre dairy operation that adjoins four other protected properties, including a sportsmen’s club that includes a 50-acre protected wetland.

To help protect 13,299 acres of active farmland on 35 farms in 20 counties across New York State

* First time Farmland Protection Award Recipient

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