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...
by sahcadmin | Apr 18, 2020 | French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Mountain ridges, low-lying farms, beautiful streams and forested hills coalesce into a quiet rural community in the corner where Buncombe, Haywood, and Madison Counties meet. This idyllic haven has been the beloved home to generations of hard-working farmers as well...
by sahcadmin | Jan 29, 2018 | French Broad River Valley
We protected 88 acres in Boyd Cove, adding to thousands of protected acres in the Newfound Mountains of Sandy Mush. Landowners Pattie and Ed Ellis, Kate Tierney, and Kara Powis worked with us to protect the forested cove with a conservation easement, ensuring that...
by sahcadmin | Jan 18, 2012 | French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
On December 28, 2011, the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy saved another special piece of land from development in the Sandy Mush community of Buncombe County, North Carolina. The 248-acre property holds pristine streams, steep slopes, and is adjacent to...
