The Beth Haven Farm has been saved from development!

Thanks to OWLs persistent efforts and the community’s relentless support, The Conservation Fund has acquired the Beth Haven Farm!

While the future of this project remains unknown, we have not given up hope that it will one day be utilized for the benefit of the community and our dedicated nonprofit partners.

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Thank you for your continued support!

This Farm has been in operation since the Mundy family settled in the foothills of NC. As a family, they helped found what was then known as Dry Pond - now Denver, NC. They also were founders of Camp Meeting at the Rock Springs Campground.
Our goal is to preserve this property for, historic, agricultural, and conservation purposes.

This is an opportunity to protect approximately 180 acres in Lincoln County, NC. This amazing historic farm land has several springs, a strong creek with small waterfalls, and over one half acre of exposed granitic flatrock creating a unique micro-habitat. So far, this Farm is the largest naturally exposed granitic flat rock feature known in this region of North Carolina.

Our community has been greatly impacted by land development in recent years. Help us save this important piece of our community’s history and prevent it from becoming another neighborhood.

In this day and age we often learn too late the importance of heritage and habitat. Once these things are gone, they cannot be recreated.

North Carolina Natural Heritage Program

Biodiversity Survey Highlights

- "The highlight of the property is an approximately .35-acre Granitic Flatrock, which is the only example of this natural community known from Lincoln County."

- "The site contains three North Carolina Natural Heritage Program Watch Listed species: Lindernia monticola, Cyperus squarrosus and Yucca flaccida."

- "This site also contains county records for 7 species, according to the NC Biodiversity project: Phemeranthus teretifolius, Galium uniflorum, Styrax grandifolius, Collinsonia canadensis, Cyperus squarrosus, Scleria pauciflora var. pauciflora and Lindernia monticola."

- "This site is of high significance to Lincoln County."

- "Watch List plant Cyperus squarrosus is found in abundance on the soil mats of the Granitic Flatrock, where it is one of the dominant herbs, intermixed with moss and lichens. There are an estimated several hundred individuals. This is a county record for Lincoln County."
- "Watch List plant Lindernia monticola (W1/S2) is found in profusion on the thin soil on the edges of the Granitic Flatrock. The plants covered large patches, forming dense colonies of several hundred individuals. They grow on mossy areas of the rock which likely hold rain during wet weather. Nearly all plants were in flower at the time of visit. This occurrence is a county record for Lincoln County."
- "Visiting this community at different times of the year may prove fruitful. There is a potential for rare plants in the Basic Mesic Forest, which is in very good condition."

- "ADJACENT LAND USE/OFFSITE STRESSES: This tract is a habitat island amid dense residential development."

- "RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROTECTION: This site warrants protection through whatever means possible."