Keeping a Farm Forever

Winterberry Farm will always be just that…a farm. The 142-year-old homestead became part of an elite group of 66 farms in Maine that has an agricultural easement placed on it by the Maine Farmland Trust and Belgrade Regional Conservation Alliance, protecting it from becoming anything other than a farm. With a loan from the USDA Farm Service Agency, owner Mary Perry was able to use a buy-protect-sell deal that places Winterberry Farm in the state’s Forever Farm program that will keep the land productive for generations. Read more (Kennebec Journal).