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I <br />Farmland Protection Grants Awarded in 2000 [$500,000 State appropriation] <br />Grantee Grant Farm County Easement Size <br />6. LandTrust for Central'NC <br />$150,000 b <br />Green Farm Cabarrus <br />317 acres <br />7. Forsyth County SWCD* <br />$123,000 m <br />Preston Farms Forsyth <br />66 of 200 ac. <br />8. Foothills Conservancy <br />$102,000 b ... <br />Bovender Farm Rutherford <br />304 of 935 ac. <br />9. Wake County SWCD* <br />$ 6,000 d <br />Theys Farm Wake <br />92 of 100 ac. <br />10 -11 Piedmont Land Consery <br />$ 44,000 d <br />Ferguson Farm Randolph <br />70 of 85 ac. <br />Troy Farm Randolph <br />305 of 314 <br />* Soil and Water Conservation District <br />2000 <br />1154 acres total <br />Farmland Protection Grants Awarded in 2001 [$1,500,000 State appropriation] <br />Grantee Grant Farm County Easement Size <br />12. LandTrust for Central NC $217,350 b <br />13. Piedmont Land Conservancy $210,300 b <br />14. Triangle land Conservancy $15,000 d <br />Barber/Floyd Farm Rowan 120 of 241 acres <br />Hadley Bros. Farm Alamance 143 of 262 ac. <br />& Chatham <br />Nutter /Siebert Farm Orange 80 of 350 ac. <br />(2 °d of series of pbased easements for t o tal -f 1Q,7 <br />15. Durham County <br />$250,000 b . <br />Herndon Farm Durham 50 of 110 ac. <br />16. Orange County <br />$107,000 m <br />Walters Farm <br />Orange <br />70 of 113 ac. <br />17. NC Coastal Land Trust <br />$210,000 b <br />Rayburn Farm <br />Perquimans <br />130 of 378 ac. <br />18. Sandhills Area Land Trust & <br />$217,350 b <br />Weeks Farm <br />Harnett <br />75 of 600 ac. <br />Averasboro Battlefield Comm. <br />19. LandTrust for Central NC <br />$138,000 b <br />Wilburn/Williams <br />Cabarrus <br />92 ac. <br />20. Blue Ridge Rural Land Trust <br />$60,000 b - <br />Mauldin Farm <br />Wilkes <br />177 ac. <br />$1,425,000 <br />2001 <br />957 acres total <br />d = donated non -farm development rights /grant reimbursed transactional costs for establishing <br />permanent conservation easement <br />b = bargain sale of non -farm development rights/ purchase price for permanent conservation <br />easement substantially less than half of the appraised development rights values <br />m = matching local funds equal to or greater than the state grant for purchase of non -farm <br />development rights on land designated by a county as high priority for farmland protection <br />