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Farmland Protection Advisory Board details easements, grants and strategy update to Durham County commissioners
Summary
The Farmland Protection Advisory Board presented its 2025 annual report to the Durham County Board of County Commissioners, reviewing conservation easements, a $250,000 agricultural grant program, partnerships with schools and an updated farmland protection strategy coordinated with regional and county planning efforts.
The Farmland Protection Advisory Board presented its 2025 annual report to the Durham County Board of County Commissioners on matters including three proposed conservation easements, the board's $250,000 agricultural grants program and an update to its farmland protection strategy.
The report included a consent-agenda item read earlier in the meeting listing acquisition of three conservation easements — 119 acres (Sandra and Jerry Wrightenberry), 147 acres (Francis Cook) and 76 acres (Tom Washington) — with a total estimated county cost of $1,800,000. The easement acquisitions were presented as part of the consent agenda; the transcript does not record a final vote on those items.
Farmland Protection Advisory Board chair Nicole Connolly summarized the board's core work as partnering with the county Open Space program and Durham Soil and Water to identify and support permanent conservation easements and to support working farms. "We are so…
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