by sahcadmin | May 15, 2026 | Farmland Conservation, Featured Highlights, French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
The undulating hillsides of farm fields and pasture in Upper Crabtree, capped by forested mountain peaks, continue to sustain generations of families whose ancestors farmed here. Wayne Hawkins grew up close to this land. Along with his two brothers, Carroll and...
by sahcadmin | Apr 23, 2025 | Farmland Conservation, French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories, Smoky Mountains
Buckskin Branch Farm Like a lovely landscape painting, Buckskin Branch Farm spreads across a scenic valley in the Fines Creek community of Haywood County. The open pasture and fertile fields of the farm sit nestled between Max Patch Road and forested hillsides...
by sahcadmin | Dec 26, 2024 | Farmland Conservation, Highlands of Roan, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Wilson Farm A Farm Story, a Family Story – in Mitchell County, NC Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy (SAHC) recently closed on a new agricultural conservation easement preserving 87.5 acres of farmland in Mitchell County, NC. As conscientious landowners...
by sahcadmin | Mar 26, 2024 | Farmland Conservation, French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Wells-Young Homeplace Conservation Easement The Wells/Young Homeplace on Willow Creek Road has served as home to generations of the Wells family in the Big Sandy Mush community. The John W. Wells farmhouse, built in the early 1840s for John and his second wife, Rachel...
by sahcadmin | Feb 27, 2024 | Farmland Conservation, French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Full Sun Farm — the name says it all. A quintessential small mountain farm on sun drenched bottomland in the Sandy Mush Creek valley, Full Sun Farm possesses fertile soils sprouting healthy produce and lush, colorful flowers. This is the kind of place where you want...
