HomeMy WebLinkAboutAPB Agenda 03192025 ORANGE COUNTY
AGRICULTURAL PRESERVATION BOARD
AGENDA
March 191", 2025
Bonnie B. Davis Environment and Agricultural Center
6:30 p.m.
Time Agenda Item
6:30 1. Call to Order
6:31 2. Chair Comments/Introduction of Guests
6:32 3. Consideration of Additions to Agenda
6:33 4. Meeting Summary/Minutes: for Jan. 15th, 2025, meeting (Attachment 1)
6:35 5. Items for Decision:
a. VAD update and farms for review and approval (by separate email)
6:45 6. Items for Discussion:
a. Land Use Plan 2050: overview of new draft for BOCC and issues
relating to agricultural and forest land uses (Attachment 2)
b. Insights from a research project with first generation farmers in
Orange County (Lee Miller and Kerilyn Schewel) (Attachment 3)
c. Revised draft/updated Ag Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan
(Attachment 4)
8.15 7. Informational Items / Updates:
a. APB presentation at BOCC Work Session on April 8
b. Ag Summit follow up
c. Extension and Ag Economic Development activities (Mike Ortosky)
d. Membership
8.25 8. Time for information sharing
8.30 9. Adjournment
***Next Meeting: May 21st, 2025***