Peninsula Open Space Trust has acquired 74 acres of farmland in San Gregorio for $3.1 million from a longtime farming family, the nonprofit announced Wednesday.
With a half-mile frontage on Highway 84 and most of the property located within the state-designated scenic corridor for Highway 1, the land was an attractive prospect for development when POST stepped in to preserve it, POST announced.
The San Gregorio property consists almost entirely of prime soils, a designation that means it has the best combination of characteristics for agricultural production. Nearly 90 percent of the property is used for growing row crops such as strawberries, Brussels sprouts, peas and pumpkins. San Gregorio Creek borders 3,000 feet of the property and is important steelhead habitat. There is an on-site reservoir and an extensive irrigation system — critically important features that allow the farm to remain in production while minimizing impacts on water resources during the current drought, according to POST.
POST has protected three other properties in the local area — Arata Ranch, San Gregorio Ranch and Toto Ranch — through the use of conservation easements that permanently protect the natural resources on those lands. POST has already identified a tenant for the property so farming activity can resume this spring. POST’s long-term goal is to sell the property to a private operator with the stipulation it remain in agriculture.
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