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Cedar Grove Windy Hill Farm <br /> Cedar Grove Agricultural District <br /> Farm includes beef cattle, dairy goats, pasture, fruit trees, blueberries, shiitake <br /> mushrooms, honeybees, and managed woodland. <br /> EVAD = 38.88 acres <br /> Howard and Karen McAdams <br /> McAdams Farm <br /> Efland/High Rock Agricultural District <br /> Farm includes vegetables, strawberries, mushrooms, beef cattle, sheep, pasture and <br /> hay crops and managed woodland. <br /> VAD = 13.42 acres <br /> (Farm in VAD program: 192 acres + additional acres= 205 ac.) <br /> Stephen and Marsha Scarlett <br /> Cedar Grove Agricultural District <br /> Farm includes beef cattle, pasture and hay crops, and managed woodland. <br /> VAD = 37.29 acres <br /> Portia McKnight and Florence Hawley <br /> Chapel Hill Creamery <br /> White Cross Agricultural District <br /> Farm includes dairy cattle and other small livestock, pasture and hay land. <br /> Chapel Hill Creamery is known for their award winning cheeses. <br /> (In a Conservation Easement program with OWASA to protect tributaries of Morgan <br /> Creek.) <br /> EVAD= 37.07 acres <br /> Nels and Nancy Anderson <br /> (Holden-Roberts Farm) <br /> Schley/Eno Agricultural District <br /> Farm includes hay crops and managed woodland/forestry. <br /> VAD= 95.95 acres <br /> Farm on the National Register of Historic Places <br /> Orange County Voluntary and Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural District Program <br /> ➢ All Farms have been reviewed by staff, meets or exceeds the minimum criteria, and <br /> have been approved by the Agricultural Preservation Board for enrollment into the VAD <br /> program <br /> ➢ Requesting final approval from Commissioners to accept five (5) farms into the <br /> Voluntary Agricultural Program. Increase of: <br /> ➢ 146.6 acres in the VAD <br /> ➢ 75.9 acres in the EVAD. <br /> ➢ If approved, total of acres in both programs: <br /> VAD = 6191 acres <br /> EVAD = 953 acres <br /> ➢ Total Acres in Orange County Voluntary Agricultural Program = 7144 acres <br />