Farmer’s Harassment Claim Against Green Group to Get Airing

There is nothing in the conservation easement that gives the PEC the power to harass and humiliate Martha Boneta

Kevin Mooney, --October 20, 2014

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Martha Boneta says a regional conservation group has trespassed repeatedly on her small farm in Paris, Va., about an hour outside Washington, D.C.
Boneta says the group, the Piedmont Environmental Council, has attempted to drive her off the farm through overzealous zoning enforcement, unwarranted and overly invasive inspections and an IRS audit she says was instigated by one of its board members. The group argues that it has done nothing more than perform its duty to enforce a legal agreement with Boneta and decries the failure “to see eye-to-eye” with Boneta on how to do so. More...

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