LINCOLN COUNTY NEWS • January 14, 2022
The pandemic that ignited the real estate boom in rural areas as families sought open space and air, however, also drove home the need to “create a community that can feed itself,” Torie DeLisle said. “We need to keep these spaces in agricultural production.” August DeLisle grew up in a family of small business owners, and understood the power of residents investing in each other. Local farmers offer the same community level of self-sufficiency, especially when national and global supply chains are disrupted. In 2020, the couple was inundated with requests to purchase meat from their sheep and pig farm when meat and poultry processing plants across the country shuttered with outbreaks of the COVID-19 virus. Their new hayfield is a “Forever Farm” under Maine Farmland Trust protected by an agricultural easement.