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The Fragile Economics of the Ag Reserve
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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Sep 16, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Montgomery County set aside roughly a third of its land area as an agricultural reserve to protect it from development and save local farms. Bike rides, apple-picking trips, CSAs, and farmers’ markets leave a romantic impression of organic food production in a verdant landscape. In reality, the economics of the ag reserve are surprising and precarious. What a farm owner gets for land is shocking. Sunil Dasgupta talks with ag reserve farm-owner and agricultural scientist Douglas Boucher about the fragile economics of Montgomery Country’s Agricultural Reserve. Music by Eddie Boxxer.
Released:
Sep 16, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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