COLUMBIA (WACH) – Tyler’s Travel Log: Farm Eye for the City Guy. Jeremy Walther gives a tour of the South Carolina farm to Tyler Ryan The first record of cultivating potatoes can somewhere between 8,000 and 5,000 BC in Peru by the Inca Indians. In the few thousand years that have followed, potatoes have become a staple of our diet, and of …
Farm family was surprised by Edisto controversy, pleased with compromise
As a farmer and outdoorsman, Jeremy Walther says the concerns raised about his family’s farming operations took him by surprise. “I love the outdoors,” Walther said as he crossed the rolling fields of his family’s 5,200-acre farm just outside of Aiken Friday morning. “My entire family are huge sportsmen. We love to hunt and fish.” The family also loves to …
Friends of the Edisto Accepts Walther Farm’s Proposal; Agrees to Drop Lawsuit
COLUMBIA, S.C. (January 28, 2014) – A 3rd generation family farm headquartered in Michigan and a South Carolina conservation group have come to terms regarding the protection of a statewide natural resource, the Edisto River’s South Fork. “When an issue or circumstance appears to set agriculture and natural resources at odds, communication is vital and compromise is required to move …
For a Large-scale Farm Development to Succeed, it Involves Communication and Compromises in South Carolina
South Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, Hugh Weathers, shares how Walther Farms has reinforced his belief that South Carolina can grow its agricultural economy and protect the environment at the same time. Learn more: For a large-scale farm development to succeed, it involves communication and compromises in South Carolina.
Potato-growing family on South Edisto doing things right
Potato-growing family on South Edisto doing things right, Farm Bureau leader says The fourth-generation family farmers hosted a number of folks from the agriculture community to answer questions and to show what they have been up to on the tract of land they purchased last February. Learn what David Winkles with the South Carolina Farm Bureau Federation had to say: Potato-growing …