Source: Marti A. Maguire, NEWS & OBSERVER, 7/29/17


As a child, Carol Peppe Hewitt often traveled with her father, a small-town veterinarian, to farms across rural Connecticut.
It’s a treasured memory. By the time she left home for college, she says, most of those farms had been bought up by New Yorkers for second homes. When she moved to North Carolina, she watched more small farms give way to subdivisions. 

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