POWHATAN COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Cedar Creek Farm in Powhatan County is now protected by a conservation easement, according to the Capital Region Land Conservancy.
Billy and Margaret Sifers purchased the land in 1978, which at that time was still “nothing but a cutover forest,” according to a release from the CRLC.
Over the course of the next 46 years, Billy Sifers executed his vision by clearing an area for their home with a small pond and an area to begin farming. By the time of his retirement in 1993, he had become a full-time farmer, leasing up to 1,200 acres of land in the area and managing a cow-calf operation…