If it’s not a marked trail, stay off it. That’s the message one local farmer is sending to snowmobilers who have been ripping around on her snow covered land. Angela Field, with Lindmilk Farms, owned by the van Lindenberg family in Admaston Bromley, says the temptation is too much for some riders to resist.
Field says the president of the Whitewater Sno-goers Club has already been in touch, doing what he can to help protect their fields.
Beneath that fresh powder is covering a very delicate, finicky crop and when snowmobilers race across the snow, they are impacting her crops and her livelihood.
Field has a message for anyone that thinks about leaving the marked trail to rip some fresh, untouched powder in a farmer’s field.
She says this kind of callousness on behalf of some snowmobilers is why clubs like Whitewater are finding it challenging to locate farmers willing to loan some of their land for trails. She says if riders continue to disrespect the landowners, everyone is at risk of losing existing trails.
(Photo credit – Angela Field facebook – caption accompanying photo – land being used illegally just off the rail bed on Butler Rd)
