Conservation Fund buys Jimmy Carter family farm in Georgia

Former President Jimmy Carter’s family farm in Georgia has been sold to a conservation group for $8.5 million, with plans to preserve the land and eventually open it to the public. The Conservation Fund announced Monday that it had acquired the roughly 2,458-acre land outside Plains, Ga., where the nation’s 39th president grew up and...

Former President Jimmy Carter’s family farm in Georgia has been sold to a conservation group for $8.5 million, with plans to preserve the land and eventually open it to the public. The Conservation Fund announced Monday that it had acquired the roughly 2,458-acre land outside Plains, Ga., where the nation’s 39th president grew up and...