Conservation Restriction Preserves Hospitable Hen Farm in Sheffield

In 1988, Helene Lund placed a conservation restriction on Friendly Flock Farm in Sheffield, a 177-acre tract on which she and her husband had raised sheep for many years. Some 50 acres of this beautiful property are composed of rich bottomland along the Housatonic River as it passes through the Sheffield Plain; the balance of the acreage climbs June Mountain east of Boardman Street. After Mrs. Lund's death, the land was conveyed to a niece, and then to a young family who raise vegetables and chickens on what is now called Hospitable Hen Farm.