Recently a family, in Vincennes, Indiana, saved a family farm that had been in the family for over 200 years. Click here for the Chicago Tribune story. The Ewing family placed the farm into a conservation easement with the Sycamore Land Trust. The Ewing family farm is one of only a handful in Indiana that has been in the same family for over 200 years. According to the story:
Under the conservation agreement with the Sycamore Land Trust, a Bloomington-based nonprofit group that preserves natural landscapes, the Ewing family and all future owners of the farm can continue farming the land but they cannot develop the land commercially.For more information on conservation easements, click here to view the National Ag Law Center's reading room on Urbanization and Agriculture.
