The preservation plan, which would place the orchard under a conservation easement and manage it through a system of shareholders, now includes a 22-acre parcel on the west side of Gould Hill Road in Hopkinton. The project’s organizers say the land is important to the project for financial and symbolic reasons: It includes the pick-your-own area of the orchard, the land that visitors are most familiar with and that commands the most dramatic views.
Previously, the land under discussion was limited to a 58-acre parcel on the east side of the road that includes the white farmhouse, sales barn, orchard land and woods.
“The vision we’ve been talking about depends on the west side land,” said Susan Zankel, a member of Hopkinton’s Open Space Committee. “The farm will be most valuable if you have both sides of the road.”
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