All over the country, consumers want locally grown food. But much of the demand is concentrated in densely populated areas, where farmers have to compete with developers over a finite amount of arable land.
Montgomery County has a solution: fully a third of its farmland will remain in agricultural use permanently, thanks to Montco’s wildly successful Farmland Preservation Program. Administrator Stephen Zbyszinski joins us to celebrate a major milestone: 10,000 acres preserved and counting!
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