 Parker Farms
Hurdle Mills, NC
by Emily Buehler, Contributing Writer
Weaver Street Market has a new pork supplier, Parker Farms of Hurdle Mills, north of Hillsborough. They were brought to us by NC Choices, a group that “promotes sustainable, community-based food systems that enhance the economic, environmental and nutritional health of North Carolina.” Parker Farms is a good model of pasture-raised pork: the pigs have spacious pens with plenty of mud. Read more.
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 Cooperatively
made Fair Trade Wine
By: Elizabeth Friend, contributing Writer
Wine making is an incredibly expensive, laborious process that takes years to perfect. This makes it difficult for small producers to get started, let alone turn a profit, and makes it almost impossible for them to compete with large corporations whose scale allows them to absorb high production costs more readily. By organizing into a cooperative, pooling resources and sharing facilities, individual farmers mitigate the cost of production. This enables them to craft superior wines that can be very affordable. Read more.
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 Hillsborough Cheese Company
by Emily Buehler, Contributing Writer
It’s a surprise to discover the Hillsborough Cheese Company’s location, nestled in the narrow tract between Interstates 40 and 85 in Hillsborough. Then you realize that the enterprise is not so much a farm (in spite of the goats wandering around) but more like an artist’s studio. At the end of a long gravel drive, there’s a small olive green building that matches the house behind it; the open door reveals racks of drying buckets, plastic containers, and a large cooler. Read more.
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 Holly Grove Farms - Mount Olive, NC
by Elizabeth Friend WSM Contributing Writer
On 65 acres near Mount Olive, NC, Debbie Craig and her children
are striving to keep a dream alive. The dream is to run a small-scale
working farm, complete with hogs, cows and a herd of dairy goats. When
Ron and Debbie Craig moved to NC in the mid-80s to work in the pork
industry, they dreamed of starting their own farm. The idea of a dairy
farm was particularly attractive to Ron, who’d worked in a dairy in
Southern Missouri as a teenager. Read more.
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