Kingston, Ont.-area citizens group aims to preserve Lemoine Point Farm
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The "Save Lemoine Point Farm" group is concerned that the land could get bought by a developer when the property goes up for sale.
The Lemoine Point Farm is an 82-acre property nestled between Lemoine Point Conservation Area, the Kingston airport and Lake Ontario.
The owner of the over 100-year-old family farm passed away earlier this year.
Now, a local citizens group has sprung up to keep the property in its natural state.
“It has over a kilometer of Lake Ontario shoreline, with many beautiful beaches, and it’s surrounded by a mature forest,” says Save Lemoine Point Farm activist Celeste Booth.
“It opens up into fields that have been farmed in a regenerative way, which is a very ecologically-sensitive way of farming, and as a result, it supports a huge amount of biodiversity.”
The Save Lemoine Point Farm group is concerned that this prime waterfront property could be sold to a developer.
“We recognize that it could be sold in the near future, and we were concerned that there’s a potential that it could be sold to developers and be lost to a housing development,” Booth says.
But, according to the group, the former owner wanted the farm to be conserved and protected from development.
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