VLCF Funded Projects
Virginia’s working farms and forests, battlefields and other historic sites, natural areas, parks and rivers are critical to its economy, culture and quality of life. In 1999, the assembly and governor established the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation (VLCF) to fund protection of these resources. The interactive map below depicts VLCF-grant projects funded since 2000.
| Name: |
Valley Pike Farm (FY17) |
| Category: |
Farmland Preservation |
| Grant Round: |
FY17 |
| Acres: |
152.8 |
| Locality: |
Rockingham County |
| Management Agency: |
Virginia Outdoors Foundation |
| Owner: |
Private |
| ConserveVirginia: |
None |
| Amount Awarded: |
$200,000.00 |
| Applicant: |
Valley Conservation Council |
| Latitude: |
38.55890734 |
| Longitude: |
-78.761193 |
| Description: |
Valley Conservation Council requested funding for the purchase of development rights and placement of a conservation easement to be held by the Virginia Outdoors Foundation on a 153-acre family farm with productive agricultural soils, wildlife habitat, and scenic views from U.S. Highway 11 and Interstate 81. Valley Pike Farm, Inc. is located in Rockingham County and is a Virginia Century Farm that has been in continuous ownership and operation by the same family for over 100 years. Protection of Valley Pike Farm now protects nearly 100 acres of prime and statewide important soils that is currently producing soybeans, barley, corn, sweet corn and hay along with grazing beef cattle on pasture lands. This project received a grant award of $200,000.
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Department of Conservation and Recreation
