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Farming
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“The concept that this is all going to put people out of business is not a new line,” Wilchens said. “Frankly, I don’t see anybody being required to do anything for quite some time.” Instead, Wilchens said, he thinks the state - with the EPA looking more intently over its shoulder in the Chesapeake Bay watershed - will focus on tightening up on other standards, including regulation of stocking rates, foraging and alternative water source development.
Some farm owners "have embraced riparian buffers and soil conservation - a veritable trend has developed, in fact, among the county’s smaller and/or newer operations which also, not coincidentally, are more open to the alternative business model that embraces so-called “niche” farming
Though his 800-acre Mount Vemon Farm doesn’t qualify as a new farm - it’s been in his family for five generations - owner Cliff Miller is one of those who, a decade ago, he says, found the riparian-buffer and altemative-water-source cost sharing programs “helped me to be able to farm this land the way I wanted to farm it.”
Miller’s Speryville farm and Dale Welch’s farm in Huntly were in fact singled out by the Soil and Water District last month when it handed out awards for Conservationist of the Year and Most Bay-Friendly Farm, respectively.
Miller has more than 140 acres in conservation or riparian buffers. And his beef, lamb and pork is sold primarily direct to consumers looking for healthier, grass-fed and pastured meat.
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