A cattle farm owned by Platt and Ashley Moore near the town of Fountain Inn in South Carolina’s Upstate is in line for preservation through the state’s conservation easement program. (Photo provided by Platt Moore)
When Platt Moore and his wife Ashley learned a residential developer had approached a neighboring farm owner about selling their land just outside the fast-growing town of Fountain Inn, the Moores worried what it would mean for their own small ranch to go from prime pastureland to a 400-home subdivision next door.
It seemed to them like the once rural towns on the outskirts of Greenville were raising more houses than beef cattle in the five years they’d been operating, so the couple asked the landowner to sell the roughly 200 acres to them instead…