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Posted on 11/12/2026 6:54:10 AM PST by xxqqzz
Former President Jimmy Carter’s family farm in Georgia has been sold to a conservation group for $8.5 million, with plans to preserve the land and eventually open it to the public.
The Conservation Fund announced Monday that it had acquired the roughly 2,458-acre land outside Plains, Ga., where the nation’s 39th president grew up and continued to return to throughout his life.
“We’re honored to help ensure this land remains [a] healthy habitat for wildlife, and we look forward to the day it is open to everyone who wants to experience it,” Stacy Funderburke, the organization’s vice president for the central Southeast region, said in a statement to WTVM.
In a separate statement to the outlet, Carter’s grandson expressed his gratitude for the acquisition.
“For our family, this land was always about more than a farm. It was home — a place my grandparents treasured. We’re grateful to The Conservation Fund and to everyone working to make sure it’s protected for generations to come,” said Jason Carter.
KTXL: Prop 40 Ca Billionaire Tax The nonprofit plans to transfer the property to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources in 2028, expanding the nearby Lanahassee Creek Wildlife Management Area to nearly 7,000 acres. The land could open to the public for hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities as early as 2027.
“Long before Jimmy Carter protected millions of acres across America, he was a boy working the fields and roaming the woods of southwest Georgia,” said Funderburke. “This land has shaped him and his legacy, and he never stopped coming home to it.”
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Carter presented himself as a peanut farmer, but he was more a plantation owner. Farm required farm workers. Carter is several great nephews of "King" Carter, Lord Fairfax's land agent, who left an estate of £10,000. Lord Fairfax had a land grant for 20 counties in VA and WV, including what is now the DC suburbs, and his land agent got rich skimming some selling off the land.
Farm is 3.5 square miles.
They could fill it with man-eating rabbits.
It appears the land will be used for hunting and other outdoor recreation.
It is to be hoped they keep some of it as working farmland, which greatly increases the carrying capacity of the land for wildlife.
aren’t peanuts a good crop in terms of soil regeneration?
They should put up a white flag. That idiot almost got us all killed.
aren’t peanuts a good crop in terms of soil regeneration?
That wretched wicked weak man worked to divide Jerusalem for his father Satan right up until his body rejected his evil spirit.
I am glad the Carter Farm will be preserved, it should be. Granted, he was not one of our top presidents, but he was one just the same.
The price is in line with normal land prices.
Does this mean that Amy is not going to be a peanut farmer?
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