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 (FY18) |
| Category: |
Farmland Preservation |
| Grant Round: |
FY18 |
| Acres: |
85.89 |
| Locality: |
Rockingham County |
| Management Agency: |
Virginia Outdoors Foundation |
| Owner: |
Private |
| ConserveVirginia: |
None |
| Amount Awarded: |
$116,100.00 |
| Applicant: |
Valley Conservation Council |
| Latitude: |
38.56358349 |
| Longitude: |
-78.760499 |
| Description: |
This grant award of $116,100 funded partial purchase of a conservation easement held by the Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF) on an active 86-acre family farm that raises poultry, beef cattle, corn, soybeans, barley and hay in Rockingham County. Valley Pike Farm, Inc. is a Virginia Century Farm that has been in continuous ownership and operation by the same family for over 100 years. Protection of this property conserves 78 acres of prime and statewide important agricultural soils on a farm that utilizes best management practices to protect the soil and improve water quality within the Smith Creek watershed.
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Department of Conservation and Recreation
