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 | May 8, 2025 | Farmland Conservation, French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Valley High Farm The land at Valley High Farm lives up to its name. Situated on a steep mountain slope overlooking the Fines Creek community, this farm-and-forest tract spans 299 acres in the northeast corner of Haywood County. A scenic, winding stretch of NC 209 –...
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 | Jan 27, 2025 | Land Protection and Landowner Stories, Smoky Mountains
White Oak Mountain The massive mountains of Great Smoky Mountains National Park provide shelter and forage for a wide diversity of species. Now, hundreds more acres in Haywood County on the eastern shoulder of the Park have been conserved, buffering its boundary from...
by sahcadmin | Sep 26, 2024 | French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Beaverdam – 81 Acres Adjoining Rough Creek Watershed “There used to be an old house just below the ridge where my great-grandmother, Bessie Scott Robinson, was born in 1917,” recalls Rusty Cook, former landowner of a 81-acre tract of land that...
