10/11/2026
Bellair is beginning the process to be put under conservation easement.
This week, Bellair owner Cynthia and farmer Michelle have been hosting folks from Piedmont Environmental Council to do our "baseline data" report for the conservation easement process. If you don't know, a conservation easement is a legal document that restricts future development and uses --- in perpetuity. Perpetuity! That's a long time!
It's pretty exciting and also very important to get right, in the many considerations that come along with this. Lots of the estates neighboring Bellair already have easements like this, so we will be joining our neighbors in keeping Secretary's Road pastoral for many future generations