 Alex Hitt, Independent Farmer
Anyone shopping at the Carrboro's Farmers' Market should be sure to visit Alex and Betsy Hitt. Their Peregrine Farm booth is a colorful cornucopia of fresh cut flowers and vegetables. Depending on the season, you'll find it filled with heirloom tomatoes, specialty peppers, lettuce, blueberries, zinnias, sunflowers, turnips, beets, and spinach. Read more.
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 Bracken Brae Farm
By Cat Moleski, Features Editor
When I first arrived at Bracken Brae Farm, I was curious about the vast open, flat space it occupied until owners Claude Hughes and Linda Sakiewicz told me that it had been a grass airstrip. After it became a farm, they would often see planes circling the field, looking to land. For the past twenty years, flocks of Barbados Blackbelly sheep have kept the fields neatly trimmed. Claude used to raise the Blackbelly sheep, until three years ago when he and Linda decided to shift their focus to herbs and eggs. Now they keep a small flock of sheep and one donkey as pets. Read more.
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