Two Cranbury Farms Preserved by County
In total, 2,600 acres on 33 farms in the township are now preserved.
Two Cranbury Township farms have entered the Middlesex County Farmland Preservation Program, the county has announced. Sallie Toscano’s 43-acre Rejay Farm and the Lum family’s 48-acre vegetable farm have joined 31 other Cranbury locations previously preserved by the county and township. All told, 2,600 acres of farmland have been preserved in Cranbury thus far. The county’s program, which to date has preserved 67 farms, organizes the purchase of easements on the land it plans to preserve. Typically, the state pays 60 percent of this amount and the county and municipality contribute 20 percent each. Rejay Farm’s development easement cost approximately $1.3 million, while the permanent agricultural easement on the Lum property cost $898,000…
John Dunphy
4:55 pm on Monday, April 18, 2011
Cranbury is an oasis of open space in the desert of highways and strip malls that makes up much of Middlesex County. Glad to hear about this effort! more ›