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By Don Audette

Special to the Rappahannock News

Some Rappahannock farmers like Monira Rifaat and Cliff Miller have taken advantage of a federal stream protection program that still has $22 million left in it for Virginians, first come, first serve.

Monira Rifaat, owner of Manor Farm in Sperryville, has 280-acres mostly in pasture for the grazing of beef cattle and she participates in this U.S. Department of Agriculture program.

"Protecting the streams is the right thing to do," she said in a recent interview. "In the farming business, that means keeping the cattle away from the streams and offering them alternative clean water for drinking. It is very grat

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