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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 />Docusign Envelope ID: F68C289B-897D-4E9C-8B77-C5477012992E