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a year per person to $25 per farm (or family).
Gwen Hays gave a report on the small ruminant subcommittee’s activities and announced that the goat, sheep and llama breeders will next meet on July 28 at Linda Witt’s Misty Mountain Farm to hear a presentation on fiber and spinning.
Once the official portion of the meeting was over, Cliff Miller treated members to a brief history of his Mount Vernon farm.
Mount Vernon is a National Register property that has been in the Miller family for 175 years.
Over the years the farm has evolved from dairy farming and apples to beef cattle.
In the 1990s the farm was rented to other local farmers. By the turn of the century, however, Cliff had decided that the best way to keep the 830 farm intact and preserve the land for the future was to turn the farm from a financial drain into a model of environmental and economic sustainability.
To do so, Cliff signed up for the government sponsored CREP program which offers assistance in fencing and planting trees.
Of the 460 acres of the farm now in hardwood trees, 130 acres were planted with 13,000 trees under the CREP program.
Where the Thornton River meanders through the farm, it has been cleaned and replanted and is now a
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