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Jimmy Carter’s Georgia farm to open to the public: ‘This land shaped him and his legacy’

Global Published 10 November 2026, 20:01 · archived 10 Nov 2026

Conservation group acquires former US president’s family farm with plans to transfer it to the state in 2028Jimmy Carter’s family farm has been acquired by a group dedicated to permanently protecting the south-west Georgia land where the late former president’s conservation ethic took hold, officials announced on Monday.A statement from the Conservation Fund said it plans to open Carter’s family farm – on about 2,458 acres (995 hectares) outside his home town of Plains, Georgia – to the public for hunting, fishing and other outdoor recreation as soon as 2027, with the group set to transfer the...

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