The Fragile Economics of the Ag Reserve

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2022-09-16

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Dasgupta, Sunil. "The Fragile Economics of the Ag Reserve" Interview with Douglas Boucher. I Hate Politics Podcast. Sep 16, 2022. https://ihppod.libsyn.com/the-fragile-economics-of-the-ag-reserve.

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Abstract

Montgomery County set aside roughly a third of its land area as an agricultural reserve to protect it from development and save local farms. Bike rides, apple-picking trips, CSAs, and farmers’ markets leave a romantic impression of organic food production in a verdant landscape. In reality, the economics of the ag reserve are surprising and precarious. What a farm owner gets for land is shocking. Sunil Dasgupta talks with ag reserve farm-owner and agricultural scientist Douglas Boucher about the fragile economics of Montgomery Country’s Agricultural Reserve. Music by Eddie Boxxer.