The Valley has a way of settling you. Its long views – fields stitched together with barns, woods, and homes – feel steady, almost timeless. That sense of calm doesn’t come from neglect or chance. It comes from people who…
Shortly after Ralph Spaid inherited a beautiful, secluded farm known as “Little Egypt” from his Uncle Winifred Orndorff, he made a trip into town to meet with the lawyer. Ralph says he knew something was up when the fellow addressed him as Mister Spaid.
Farm owner Hope Yankey is surrounded by one-and-a-half year old trees, protected by white tree tubes, in this “re-wilding” area on Wilding Woolly Farm. Areas of the farm are being reforested to help protect water quality in the Lost River…
When George Sempeles became the president of GunBarrel hunt club 10 years ago, he knew he wanted to protect the group’s Hampshire County, West Virginia, land from development.
Easement grantor and longtime land trust supporter John Gavitt's moving personal story, and his dream for our watershed.
“It was about 1966. My Dad and I were canoeing down the Cacapon River. We stopped for lunch at a cabin site with a large mowed lawn.
Look around you! It’s 134 acres. It’s got streams and meadows and ponds and a little timber on it, and it’s two hours from Washington, D.C.
There are many reasons to protect this land and this farm but one of the most important motivations for me, is that after I hang up my farmer’s hat, this land will continue to be a farm...
My family came in here two hundred years ago, and I grew up here. My daddy used to take me up here on the hill and point out which pieces of property that my ancestors had gotten their hands on…
