The Yeatman family’s farm in West Grove was recently recognized at Penn State’s Ag Progress Days as one of the newest Pennsylvania Century Farms, writes Rachel Wagoner for Farm and Dairy.

The Century and Bicentennial Farm Program is run through the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Farmland Preservation.

To become a century farm, the same family must own the same farm for at least 100 years and a family must live on the farm still. Additionally, the farm must have at least 10 acres of the original holding or gross more than $1,000 annually from the sale of farm products.

“I know that these stories are sometimes complicated to tell, very emotional to tell because of turning points along the way where you had to make decisions,” Russell Redding, the state’s agriculture secretary, said at the recognition ceremony. “As much as we celebrate the label of century farm, we know behind that there are a lot of decisions that take place.”

The Yeatman family, which originally purchased its farm in 1919 for dairy operations, operate Mother Earth Organic Mushrooms.

Click here to read more about the newest Pennsylvania Century Farms in Farm and Dairy.

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