Potter Family Ranch

Pasture Improvement And Laneway Project

Potter Family Ranch notes that the Delaware County Farm Enhancement grant has been a life-changer for their operation. Leveraging the grant to install fencing to connect pasture lands between the family’s two farms has enabled better grazing management, expanded production capacity, and returned 25 acres of fallow land back into agricultural production.

Committed to environmental stewardship, animal husbandry, quality food production, and their familial agricultural legacy, the Potter family continues to invest in improving the farm. Knitting together Meghan’s parent’s and grandparents’ farms, the Potter Family Ranch is keeping 225 acres of beautiful Delaware County land in vibrant agricultural production, positioning the farms’ 100-year history to thrive for future generations. Specifically, this project allowed for the connection of the two farms with permanent fencing systems to seamlessly move animals between all grazing paddocks. This enables the farm to provide shaded pastureland to enhance summer grazing conditions, utilize existing infrastructure and cattle handling systems to maximize safe management and care of cattle, and return acres of fallow land back to grazing, which is their only suitable use.

Completion of this project has enabled expansion of the herd and enhanced the family’s ability to manage the cattle. The additional permanent fencing has created safer and more efficient cattle handling and enhanced hayfield layout. Meghan expressed her appreciation, stating the farm wasn’t in a position to undertake a project of this scope in a single phase of implementation without the grant.

Last updated June 13, 2025