Opinion: Local farmland preservation should be a priority for our governments

Indian Ladder Farms is well known to all and has been serving the community in many ways for 110 years. And in the same tradition of the Thacher family, the Ten Eyck family in 2003 put 320 acres of I.L.F. under a conservation easement with the Mohawk-Hudson Land Conservancy, which permanently preserves the land for agricultural use.