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24 <br /> Saile has spent time in an incubator farm program and worked on organic farms. <br /> He has become active in community gardens and has a garden on a friend's plot of <br /> land. <br /> But in looking for his own property, Saile, 33, has run into one of the biggest <br /> hurdles facing new farmers: the cost and availability of farmland. In the fast- <br /> growing Triangle, farmland is often lost to development and the price of the arable <br /> land that remains has skyrocketed, putting it out of reach of young farmers. <br /> ADVERTISING <br /> Learn more <br /> 1 J1 0 G <br /> SPRING, <br /> CLEARANCE <br /> ....,_� <br /> , E <br /> rcomsfogo.com <br /> So Saile decided to lease a half-acre on Good Hope Farm, a cultivator farm off <br /> Morrisville Carpenter Road in Cary, where he will grow heirloom tomatoes, <br /> peppers, salad mixes, potatoes and squash starting this season. Cultivator farms <br /> give young farmers affordable access to the land and tools they need to get started. <br /> "I could find affordable land, but it would be in the mountains on the side of a hill <br /> somewhere," Saile said laughing. <br /> WAKE, DURHAM,ORANGE,JOHNSTON AND CHATHAM COUNTIES HAVE LOST ABOUT 15 <br /> PERCENT OF THEIR FARMLAND SINCE 1997 <br />