ALLENTOWN – In its ongoing effort to preserve a foundational element of its heritage – agriculture – Lehigh County has added two more properties to its catalog of preserved farms.
On Thursday, the state approved $493,414 to preserve a 25-acre crop farm in Upper Milford Township and a 54-acre crop farm in Lynn Township. The new additions will bring the number of preserved farms in Lehigh County to 421, totaling 28,775 acres. Another 18 properties are in the pipeline.
The designation protects the farms from commercial or residential development. In many cases, farm owners have rejected lucrative offers from developers out of a commitment to save the land…