Source: Jule Hubbard, WILKES JOURNAL PATRIOT, 11/26/19


A farmland protection plan being developed for Wilkes County would make it possible for landowners here to be paid for keeping acreage in agriculture, said Wilkes District Soil Conservationist Robert Baldwin at the Nov. 19 county commissioners meeting. The N.C. Department of Agriculture awarded the Wilkes Voluntary Agricultural District Board a $14,000 two-year grant for developing the farmland protection plan. Baldwin said the board hired Mallory Vannoy, a Virginia Tech graduate student from Ashe County, with the funds to help develop the plan.

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