Meredell Dairy ~ 374 acres, Randolph County
Meredell Farms, Inc. Sale of Conservation Easement.
This large dairy farm in the
Liberty Randleman Protection Corridor contains almost two miles of tributaries
to Sandy Creek, the water supply for the Town of Ramseur. The owner’s need to sell the farm in 2003 raised the threat of
losing this farm to a non-agricultural use. By the end of 2003, PLC
purchased a conservation easement, ensuring the long-term protection of the
prime soils and the streams and an area farmer had acquired the land subject to
the easement.
Project funding provided by the NC Department of Transportation, the US Department of Agriculture’s Farmland and Ranchland Protection Program, and PLC.