We encourage the retention of farmlands within families or as donations to local land trusts and conservancies. We need to limit rural development by use of Master Zoning Plans. We encourage both topsoil preservation and topsoil regeneration programs. The coming of industrialization to agriculture has both good and bad aspects. It is not only the right, it is the duty of each township to carefully manage their finite resource of land.
Undeveloped lands are crucial habitats for the ever-shrinking patches of nature in our midst.
Too much of our rural land has been taken up into urban space, or treated in the same way as urban space is, and much food producing area has been lost in this way. If we are to feed our people in the future, prime farmland must be preserved from sprawl, both urban and rural. Hemp Low-THC hemp has many sustainable possibilities. The very qualities which make it an excellent plant-fiber crop limit its use as a smokable leaf plant. Hemp use will spare trees, as it produces four times as much usuable plant material per acre, and on a yearly basis at that.