Joan Harris of Licking County could not care for her land any longer so she donated the 170-acre farm to the Ohio Department of Agriculture in June to be used for agricultural purposes.
The cropland, pasture and woods in Madison Township was in the Harris family since 1941.
Harris’ donation is the sixth of its kind leaving the organization with 963 acres of farmland.
The Licking County Soil and Water Conservation District will watch over the land to assure it stays in good condition.
The donation was made under the Ohio Agricultural Easement Donation Program that allows landowners to donate land using voluntary legal agreements restricting non-agricultural development on farmland and the land stays on the tax rolls and under private management.
Under this program the owners can pass the land down or donate it with the easement permanently on the land. This means no one at any time can develop the land. In a way when people are deceased or cannot take care of the land it leaves them with a piece of mind that their land will always be agricultural.
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