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Farming in a National Park
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It's been some adventures with the National Park. You know, I had to have an archeological study before I could put fence posts in the ground. Of course, I didn't know that. I just—I—I thought I was just gonna build this fence, and I couldn't. I had to wait, you know. And of course the archeologists are traveling archeologists who go from national park to national park, and they were already here and gone, so I had to wait 'til the next year to start my fence. Which...
But there's been some adventures like that. I found buried concrete. There were greenhouses on the property at one time, and they tore down all these greenhouses. And the contract with the park paid them to haul all the concrete away, and they buried all the concrete. So when I got here and put a plow in the ground, I just started hittin' concrete, concrete. And the national park ended up comin' in with a giant bulldozer with, you know, three-foot ripper teeth on the back, and a coupla bobcats, and they had to run through the field. And they collected a mountain—I don't know how many truckloads of concrete were buried in the field that I was supposed to be growing on. So... It's been an adventure, I'll say that. And I've enjoyed most of it. ~laughs~
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Alan Halko, from the former Spring Hill Farm and Market, describes the unusual challenges of farming on National Park Service land.
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