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By Bob Lazaro
Special to the Rappahannock News
Thanks to a unique partnership, 346 acres of prime farmland on Battle Run have been forever protected from development. This historic farm property contains over a dozen structures recently listed on the National and State Historic Registries.
Meadow Grove Farm on Old Richmond Road is the first farm in Rappahannock County to receive funding for a conservation easement through the Rappahannock County’s Farmland Preservation Program. The Farmland Preservation Program, like many local purchase of development right programs across the state, helps to keep farmland which is identified by local communities as important to their economies and quality of life from being lost to development.
“This has been a true partnership with the Massie family, the Rappahannock County Farmland Preservation Fund, the Krebser Fund, the Virginia Outdoors Foundation and the Piedmont Environmental Council all playing key roles in making this easement possible,” said Christopher G. Miller, President of the Piedmont Environmental Council, a local land use and land conservation organization that played a critical role in forming the partnerships that made this project possible.
The project also received funding from the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation (VLCF) and the Open Space Preservation Trust Fund, two competitive statewide grant programs created to protect properties with exceptional conservation values.
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