Agriculture

With help from community donations, the Peconic Land Trust closed on a vacant 15-acre parcel on Deep Hole Creek in Mattituck this summer. Now comes a search for a new owner.

A portion of Castello di Borghese in Cutchogue, Long Island’s first and oldest vineyard, has been sold in a deal that allows for business as usual as the North Fork vineyard approaches its 50th anniversary next year. “It’s a new lease on life for the founding Long Island vineyard,” says Joseph DiVello of Century 21 Albertson…
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In a record pace, the North Fork community comes together to raise money to preserve a beloved 15-acre property in Mattituck.

Suffolk County officials have unveiled a new funding program that will invest $100 million over the next 10 years to preserve at-risk farms.

A historic purchase earlier this week will help keep Long Island’s oldest running farm just that — a farm. Suffolk County purchased the development rights to 11.16 acres of the Wells Homestead Acres farm in Aquebogue for $613,800, which means the land is safe from potential development. “There has been intense development pressure so the…
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Dan Abrams, the chief legal correspondent at ABC News, is officially the new owner of Laurel Lake Vineyards and is ready to rebrand his new North Fork investment.

Good news for the East End: Amber Waves Farm has purchased the land on which they operate, along with the adjacent Amagansett Farmers Market. The seller, Margaret de Cuevas, also donated an enhanced easement to the Peconic Land Trust, which ensures the land will be actively farmed forever. This easement the first of its kind…
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