A3B*Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 27,1989
Chester County Farmer
(Continued from Page A 1)
R-New York; Joe Colter, D-
Pennsylvania; Mervin Dymally,
D-Califomia; Charles Hatcher, D-
Georgia; Bob Lagomarsino, R-
Califomia; William Lipinski, D-
Illinois; Buz Lukens, R-Ohio;
Lynn Martin, R-Illinois; Denny
Smith, R-Oregon; Peter Smith, R-
Vermont; and Arlen Strangeland,
R-Minnesota, ranking Republican
of the House Agriculture
Committee.
Lange and his family live and
operate the 207-acre farm owned
by the family matriarch, Jane Gor
don Fletcher, an octegenarian. The
farm has been in the family since
1896 and provides a living for
Lange and his wife, Carla, and his
parents, Joan and Warren Hopkins.
His sister Ann also works on the
farm, while her twin, Sarah, works
in Philadelphia but still contributes
to the farm operation.
In an effort to protect what they
have, Lange and his- family
devised a strategy to make the land
less desirable to developers.
Almost all of the acreage has deed
restrictions limiting the number of
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part of an ag preserve.
Lange looked into selling ag
preservation, but found it wouldn’t
work for him.
“We were told that (Chester
County ag preservation board
members) couldn’t justify going
for land here because the differ
ence in land valued for farming
versus real estate was too high,”
Lange said. “They said their dollar
would buy more in the western part
of the county.”
Lange doesn’t agree with the ag
preservation board’s decision. He
feels the board would get more
social value for theif dollar by pur
chasing farms in suburban areas.
“My theory is that people would
benefit more for the space in the
suburbs versus land out in western
townships,” he explained. “The
people who would benefit in the
western part of the county would
be just the farmers. In this area all
the people would benefit.”
Schulze agrees philosophically
with Lange. “Society benefits
from having farms in metropolitan
areas. The ecological benefits are
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multitudinous. Society would also
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“We have to give those who
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