Tobacco Communities Reinvestment

Project will provide up to 40 individual (up to $10,000) and community (up to $30,000) cost-share initiatives in 14 tobacco-producing counties in order to test farm-based initiatives to supplement lost tobacco income.

Tar River Tobacco Farmland Preservation

Project will protect 4,000 acres of land valued at $12 million and 24 miles of streams by providing an alternative to tobacco farmers wanting to protect their farm from development by maintaining their land in an agricultural land base that purchases the development...

Water Supply Preservation and Development

Project will design a surface water treatment plant and distribution system to preserve capacity of ground water sources in Lenoir, Greene and Pitt counties. Project will protect and create jobs in water-dependent enterprises and help maintain and improve sales in the...