STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – March 24, 2026 – Centre County agricultural, conservation, and community leaders are calling on Governor Josh Shapiro and state agencies to ensure a transparent, community-driven planning process for the future of the SCI Rockview lands—one of the most defining and visible landscapes in central Pennsylvania. Following the announced closure of SCI […]
Holiday Greetings to you and yours! Last year, I wrote asking for your help to preserve more than 400 acres of beautiful land, as we’ve been working with owners of three properties who were willing to donate their development rights and preserve their land with a conservation easement held by the Centre County Farmland Trust. […]
Pennsylvania is a leader in conserving farmland This relatively recent movement for institutional land preservation started with Lancaster County’s creation in 1980 of the first “Agricultural Preserve Board” in the state, as the commissioners implemented a popular program to use tax income to maintain working farms and buy development rights of endangered private properties. […]
We tend to forget them in intervening years. But without fail, every 13 and 17 years various parts of the United States are visited by hordes of emerging cicadas — which have been sitting quietly where they were laid by females more than a decade earlier. They are found in urban as well as farm […]
Landowners who remove invasive, non-native tree and shrub species can receive up to five replacement trees for free this year from a new Pennsylvania program. Register in advance for a tree pickup event in Scranton Sunday, May 18. If you can’t attend an event, the website is still valuable for its lists of invasive trees, […]