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10 <br /> Practices promulgated by the State of North Carolina or equivalent standard and in conformity <br /> with a Conservation Plan as required in Paragraph 9 of this Conservation Easement. <br /> Cattle and other livestock are allowed to exist and to graze on the Property, except within <br /> a 100-foot stream buffer, 50 feet on either side of the stream as measured from the center of the <br /> stream to the top of bank and perpendicular to the stream—the locations of which are identified <br /> and marked on Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein. Exhibit A is a copy of a GIS <br /> rendering of the Property, the original of which will be maintained with the Baseline Report at <br /> the office of the Orange County Environment and Resource Conservation Department. If <br /> applicable:Fencing intended to keep cattle and other livestock out of the 100-foot stream buffer <br /> shall be installed no later than six months after the signing of this Conservation Easement. <br /> Livestock are permitted, but under no circumstances shall there be such use of a size or scope as <br /> to constitute an industrial or factory-type agricultural or livestock operation, intensive livestock <br /> operations, or animal husbandry characterized by the continuous confinement of livestock in <br /> tightly confined environments for the purposes of raising, feeding, and fattening for market. <br /> Terrestrial crops must be produced with plant roots in living soil, or in living soil mixed or <br /> fertilized with materials and products allowed in organic production, in connection with the <br /> subsoil and bedrock. Aquatic plants, such as water cress which naturally grow in water, are <br /> excluded from this requirement. Mushrooms, which are not plants and therefore do not depend <br /> on minerals from soil, are excluded from this requirement. <br /> All forms of hydroponic crop production, which is a generic class of soil-less production <br /> whereby terrestrial plants are grown with their roots in a nutrient solution only or in an inert <br /> medium to which a nutrient solution is added, are prohibited. Aquatic plants are excluded from <br /> this prohibition. <br /> Growing annual or perennial seedlings or transplants in container vessels for further <br /> transplanting into soil is permitted. <br /> There shall be no use of synthetic pesticides or biocides, including but not limited to insecticides, <br /> fungicides, rodenticides, and herbicides on the Property. The use of natural pesticides is <br /> permitted only as a last resort after cultural, physical, and biological pest management measures <br /> have been exhausted(in adherence with principles of Integrated Pest Management). <br /> 5. Right to Privacy <br /> Grantors retain the right to privacy and the right to exclude any member of the public <br /> from trespassing on the Property. This Conservation Easement does not create any rights of the <br /> public in, on or to the Property. <br /> 6. Right to Use the Property for Customary Rural Enterprises <br /> Grantors retain the right to use the portion of the Property within the "Farmstead Areas" <br /> (which contains approximately 1.878 acres in Farmstead Area 1, and 2.965 acres in Farmstead <br /> Area 2) as identified on Exhibit A, and more particularly described in the Baseline Report, for <br /> Page 5 of 21 <br />