In a collaborative effort with the Shost family and Goffstown, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests (Forest Society), acquired a conservation easement on 177 acres of the Shosts' family farm, Sugar Bush Farm, this fall.
The Shost family has enjoyed watching wildlife on their farm for decades. It has been in the family for five generations.
“It’s so pleasant to sit here and watch the animals… I feel I’m right out in it,” Gayle Shost said during a recent visit at her home with Brenda Charpentier, a writer at the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests who posted this story on the organization's webmail.
When she and her son Duston Shost were asked by a friend and apple customer who is on the Goffstown Conservation Commission to consider conserving the land, they saw an opportunity to make sure the wildlife would never be displaced.
“All around us, it’s all developed,” she said. “The easement allows the animals to have a place of their own where they are not invaded upon. We want to have it safe forever.” Click below to read the full story on WMUR.com