{"id":31246,"date":"2025-11-11T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/31246\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:35:09","slug":"more-norco-farms-preserved-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/31246\/","title":{"rendered":"More Norco farms preserved \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published November 11. 2025 12:19PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Sen. Lisa Boscola announced recently that five additional farms in Northampton County have been preserved as part of Pennsylvania\u2019s nation leading Farmland Preservation Program. The total investment of funds to preserve the 193 acres throughout Northampton County was nearly $2 million, with the state investing $1,287,010 and Northampton County investing $659,826.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Five farms have been preserved:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022 Thomas R. and JoLynn Engler, 49-acre crop farm, Plainfield Township<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022 Estate of Evelyn I. Spengler, 37-acre crop farm, East Allen Township<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022 Jacob R. and Amanda M. Klein #2, 16-acre crop farm, Forks Township<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022 James R. Poliskiewicz, Jr., 41-acre crop farm, Upper Mt. Bethel Township<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022 Roger C. and Trudy P. Unangst #3, 50-acre crop farm, East Allen Township<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cPreserving farmland to ensure that it is available to farm for future generations by protecting it from future development is critically important,\u201d Boscola said. \u201cOnce again, working collaboratively, the Commonwealth and Northampton County have made this investment to ensure another 193 acres will continue to benefit our region and our Commonwealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Since 1988, when voters statewide overwhelmingly supported creating the state\u2019s Farmland Preservation Program, Pennsylvania has protected 6,597 farms and 656,568 acres in 58 counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published November 11. 2025 12:19PM Sen. Lisa Boscola announced recently that five additional farms in Northampton County have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-31246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}