TRAVERSE CITY — A chunk of Old Mission Peninsula farmland is protected permanently from future development.
A 70-acre tract owned by the Nyblad family now is protected through a conservation easement, part of a development rights purchase program Peninsula Township created in 1994. The tart cherry farm is at Old Mission and Center roads and is the last in the largest block of Old Mission farmland to be protected, bordered by roughly 300 acres of other protected working farms.
The Nyblad family annually produces about 750,000 pounds of tart cherries between this property and another farm on the peninsula.
For more information about conservation easements and local land preservation efforts, contact the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy at 929-7911 or visit www.gtrlc.org.
