Final harvest set for Harmans farm

After more than a century of growing peaches, pumpkins and other produce in Harmans, the Boyers are calling it quits.

Ridgely Boyer and his family have agreed to sell their 52-acre farm to a Severna Park developer who plans to put more than 200 homes on the land, a rural speck in an ever-growing stretch of suburbia.

Mr. Boyer, who has been running the farm since 1983 with brother-in-law, Gregg Gibson, said it wasn't an easy decision to sell a part of his family history.

"It took a lot of soul-searching to do this," Mr. Boyer said. "It's not like a stock I owned that I want to get rid of now."

While the farm's...