In June 1985, Burlington County welcomed then Gov. Thomas Kean and New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Arthur R. Brown to the Chesterfield Firehouse for a ceremony celebrating the preservation of five Chesterfield farms that had been targeted to become a more than 1,000-unit housing development, known as Chesterfields Commons. It marked the very first New Jersey farms to be preserved through the state’s fledgling farmland preservation program. On Friday, the Burlington County Commissioners gathe

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The Three Willows Farm in Springfield was permanently preserved by the State of New Jersey this week and the Burlington County Commissioners were present to celebrate the farm’s addition to the more than 67,000 acres preserved across the county but also the new farmland preservation formula that helped make it happen. Check out this video from Monday’s preservation ceremony and learn more about the preserved cattle farm and New Jersey's new statewide preservation formula at https://www.co.burlin

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