Agriculture

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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