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Jillian and Ross Mickens have done what many only dream of: turned an interest in “where food comes from” into a full-fledged farm. Working with a former tobacco farm, they’re…
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Debbie Donnald and Audrey Lin never take a break. The founders of Two Chicks Farm in Hillsborough spend their summers growing produce in the fields and in shade houses, and…
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Daniel and Allison Cooper have returned to the farm. Cooper-Lasley Farm has been in Daniel’s family for seven generations, transforming from the original 1797 homestead into a dairy farm and…
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Want a bigger garden in your life? Think you’re limited by the size of your yard, or your full-time job? Then check out the MacAllers’ Four Leaf Farm in Rougemont,…
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In the ten-plus years that they’ve been farming on Dimmocks Mill Road in Hillsborough, Richard Holcomb and Jamie DeMent have built quite an establishment. Their fifty-five acres contain impressive rows…
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Read what it’s like to visit Fickle Creek Farm on the Piedmont Farm Tour.

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Farm Boy Farms started as a homebrewing venture, but it’s grown into much more. Dan Gridley still brews beer, but he also grows hops and works with neighboring farmers to…
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A photo gallery from our 2011 visit to Everlaughter Farm.

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Portia McKnight and Flo Hawley began the Chapel Hill Creamery in 2001. They planned to buy North Carolina milk to make their cheeses, but production had declined so much that…
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Meredith Leight has big plans for the land at Granite Springs Farm. What began as a small family farm  is poised to become an intentional community of farmers, food artisans,…
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