Boscola Announces Northampton County Farm located in Lower Mount Bethel to be Preserved as Part of Commonwealth’s Farmland Preservation Program

Boscola Announces Northampton County Farm located in Lower Mount Bethel to be Preserved as Part of Commonwealth's Farmland Preservation Program

December 11, 2025

BETHLEHEM (December 11, 2025) - - Senator Lisa Boscola announced today that a 31-acre crop farm owned by Kevin Brent and Denise M. and Brayden W. McEwen located in Lower Mount Bethel Township will be preserved as part of Pennsylvania's nation leading Farmland Preservation Program. The total investment to preserve the farm is $230,944 with the Commonwealth investing $17,131 and Northampton County investing $213,812.

"Once again, working collaboratively, the Commonwealth and Northampton County have made this investment to ensure another 31 acres of farmland will continue to benefit our region and our Commonwealth. Preserving farmland to ensure that it is available to farm for future generations by protecting it from future development is critically important for our region's quality of life," Senator Boscola stated. "Through farmland preservation, we ensure Pennsylvania's farming community remains the backbone of our state's economy and an irreplaceable resource that benefits our environment, crop and livestock industries, rural communities, and grocery shoppers."

At its meeting today the State Agriculture Land Preservation Board voted to preserve an additional 2,354 acres on 27 farms in 13 counties across Pennsylvania, protecting them from future residential or commercial development. With today's action, the Commonwealth's Farmland Preservation Program has now protected 6,648 farms and 661,035 acres in 58 counties from future development across the Commonwealth. The program was created in 1988, when the voters of Pennsylvania overwhelmingly supported creating the Farmland Preservation Program.

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