by sahcadmin | Jul 26, 2021 | French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy purchased 166 acres in northwestern Haywood County, including forested slopes of Crabtree Bald. The property is located in a region where we and partners have been conserving forested ridges and productive valley farms for...
by sahcadmin | Jul 16, 2021 | Farmland Conservation, French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Mark and Laura Rogers worked with Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy to protect 236 more acres of beautiful farmland in the Crabtree community of Haywood County. These agricultural conservation easements join land that they and other members of the Rogers...
by sahcadmin | Dec 4, 2020 | French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
In November, we purchased 54 acres in the Beaverdam community of Haywood County, protecting land adjoining the Town of Canton’s Rough Creek Watershed and other SAHC-protected properties in the Beaverdam and Newfound Mountains area. “Permanent protection of...
by sahcadmin | Jul 20, 2020 | Farmland Conservation, French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
In June, you helped purchase a conservation easement on 49 more acres of productive farmland in the lovely Sandy Mush community of northwestern Buncombe County. Sandy Hollar Farms is a Buncombe County attraction, with seasonal events like pick-your-own Christmas...
by sahcadmin | Jul 10, 2020 | French Broad River Valley, Our Community Farm
SAHC’s 140-acre Community Farm hosts beginning farm businesses, educational workshops, and service learning experiences. The site includes a Farmer-Incubator Program, stream restoration and shortleaf pine reforestation projects, educational Discovery Trail (which can...
by sahcadmin | Jun 12, 2020 | French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
The Young Pisgah Mountain property adjoins Pisgah National Forest just a mile north of the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Upper Hominy Creek Valley of southwest Buncombe County. This 102-acre conservation easement conserves habitat in an important wildlife corridor, in a...
