With the recent easement closings of two Machado Family Farms properties, California Farmland Trust (CFT) now protects an additional 246 acres of fruit and nut orchards and irrigated cropland in San Joaquin County.
Located in Linden, these parcels, owned and operated by Mike and Diana Machado, are the second and third properties under the Machado Family to be placed in agricultural conservation easements (ACE). In 2015, Mike’s father and mother placed their home ranch, started by Mike’s grandparents, under an ACE with CFT. Six years later, Mike and Diana are doing the same with their other properties.
“Putting our land under agricultural conservation easements will preserve it for agricultural use, so if my children or their children want to farm, it’ll be there,” Mike Machado said. “This is part of a long-term plan for us to be able to preserve agriculture and land for our family and their future.”