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...
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