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<div align="center"><font face="Haettenschweiler" size="+3">Amherst
Area Farm Forum<br>
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</font><font face="Haettenschweiler" size="+2">Thursday, October 16,
2003<br>
7 to 9 P.M.<br>
Red Barn<br>
Hampshire College</font><br>
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<div><font face="Haettenschweiler" size="+3">A forum to examine the<u>
Agricultural Preservation Restriction</u> Program (APR):<br>
whereby development rights are purchased and frozen and thus local
farms are preserved…</font><font face="Wingdings" size="+2"><br>
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challenges<br>
Current Massachusetts budget problems and cuts threaten APR program
funding and<br>
therefore threaten the continued existence of some local farms and
open lands!<br>
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Panel:<br>
Robie Hubley, Moderator. <br>
Alexandra Dawson, Attorney. <br>
Annie Cheatham, Community Involved in Sustaining
Agriculture. <br>
Nancy Hanson, Hampshire College Farm Center. <br>
Joseph Swartz, farmer. <br>
State Representatives Ellen Story, John Scibak, and Peter Kocot are
invited to join us<br>
to comment on the panel presentation, current
issues with state funding and other <br>
legislation affecting farming. <br>
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Sponsors:<br>
Town of Amherst Farm Committee<br>
Hampshire College Farm Center<br>
The Kestrel Trust<br>
Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA)<br>
The New England Small Farm Institute (NESFI)<br>
Western Massachusetts Land Trusts<br>
And other organizations devoted to the preservation of open space and
quality<br>
community life.<br>
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