Grattan Township, MI

Kent County Secures 67 acres of Farmland in Grattan Township

On October 17, Kent County purchased a conservation easement for 67 acres of farmland in Grattan Township. This permanent easement guarantees that the property will remain farmland in perpetuity. The purchase for the farm’s development rights was made possible by donations from Grattan Township, the Wege Foundation, the USDA, and the landowners, Scott and Melissa Sieracki.

In 2018, the Sieracki Application ranked 1 out of 11 applications for the east part of Kent County, the Parnell Corridor. Now, as the 28th property preserved in Kent County since the Purchase of Development Rights program was authorized in 2002, the program has preserved approximately 2,800 acres. Farmland in Grattan accounts for 800 acres, or just about a quarter of all preserved farmland in the county. The Agricultural Preservation Board selected this farm because of its abundance of prime and unique soils, allowing for a broad diversity of agricultural production and its proximity to other protected parcels.

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