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Article: Appalachian farms: biodiversity at Hickory Nut Gap Farm.
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- New Life Journal
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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Biodiversity is what farming is all about for Jamie and Amy Ager. Located in the Fairview community of Buncombe County, they are the fourth generation to farm the 600 acres of Hickory. Nut Gap Farm. On the sixty acres of pasture on the farm, they strive to mimic nature in a "perennial polyculture" that includes open fields and woodlands, grass-fed cattle, pastured turkeys and chickens, lambs and pigs, and even pastured egg production. "We maintain open land the way that nature has always done it," says Jamie, "by grazing herbivores."
What this means for the consumer is naturally-raised meats from humanely treated animals. Jamie and Amy believe that this type of ...