![]() They are currently working with the Conservancy to protect an additional 138 acres of land about a mile and a half away from the first portion. To that end, Wayne and his brother, Carrol, decided to preserve 103 acres of their farm through a conservation easement with Catawba Lands Conservancy in 2019. ![]() ![]() There will be more pressure to develop land as time goes along, and we’re going to protect ours from that happening to it.” “I think it’s important we have this type of land available to those who want to farm in the future. “I would like for this land to continue to be agricultural land,” he said. He is part of the fifth generation to maintain several hundred acres of farmland in Lincoln County near Vale, a legacy that stretches back 150 years to the days of his great-great-grandfather. For Wayne Mitchem, farming is a way of life and an important aspect of his family’s history. ![]()
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