What We Do
- Serve as a local voice advocating for farmers, farm businesses, and farm interests
- Provide visibility for farming
- Give farmers a place to go for help
- Work with town boards on issues facing farming in town
- Help resolve farm related problems or conflicts
- Work to protect farmland and other natural resources
- Agricultural commissions do not have any regulatory or enforcement authority
- Provide visibility for farming
- Give farmers a place to go for help
- Work with town boards on issues facing farming in town
- Help resolve farm related problems or conflicts
- Work to protect farmland and other natural resources
- Agricultural commissions do not have any regulatory or enforcement authority
“The duties of the Commission shall include, but not be limited to, the following: serve as facilitators to encourage and promote agricultural-based economic pursuits; act as mediator, advocate, educator, and/or negotiators on farming issues; work for the preservation of open land, advise the Town and all its Boards and Commissions, on agrarian issues and shall pursue all initiatives appropriate to encourage and promote agricultural pursuits."
- Williamsburg Government Bylaw