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Our View
Keeping the
faith in farming
Local resident Joyce Abell has launched on a unique
farming venture that so far has proved to be a success.
Partnering with a younger, farmer-in-progress, Trista Scheuerlein, the two have worked out an arrangement that suits both their needs —Abell can continue to farm her land and Scheuerlein has a place to farm.
Peacevine Farm is the result and Scheuerlein can be seen on weekends selling her fresh produce at local markets.
A connection like this might not always work, but in this case it’s working just fine and the two are reaping the benefits of a mutual love of the land and love of an art that neither want to lose.
While certainly content to continue their farming friendship and successful farming partnership, Abell and scheuerlein would like to spread the good news that match-ups like theirs can work and should be replicated.
Land owner, land lover, past farmer, future farmer, young and young-at-heart, they are sharing a dream.
Their hope is that others will too.
So, what’s with
the bears?
One of our reporters hit a bear while trying to get
to an accident on Fodderstack Road. Certainly
shaken by the incident, the unfortunate bear limped off into the woodlands and our reporter drove on with a dented bumper and a smashed headlight.
Sheriff Larry Sherertz killed a bear over the weekend. Again, the bear had been seriously injured and it was an act of kindness to put the animal out of its misery. This particular bear was reported to be of fair size . (nearly seven feet tall) and weighing over 400 lbs.
Aside from countless reported bear sightings throughout the county, discoveries of large paw prints meandering through the Shenandoah and accounts of bears inhaling large amounts of birdseed and com kernels and fighting for territory along with the squirrels, some in the county are speculating that the “bears” are becoming as commonplace as the “deer.”
Rappahannock County has always had bears, but are there more of them?
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