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You may not see many bluebirds at Bluebird Meadows this year [2009]. Alice and Stuart White are just now making their bluebird boxes, hoping the birds will notice and move in. But you will see a classic small farm, just starting its second year of production. Alice named the farm after the scads of bluebirds…
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Elaina Kenyon began spinning wool into yarn in graduate school. She’d grown up on a dairy and meat farm, but didn’t want exactly that life for herself. But when a friend taught her how to spin, she knew she’d found her calling. As soon as she had the land and time for animals, she started…
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One hundred years ago, before fast transportation, cold storage, and modern grocery stores, farmers grew not one commodity crop but a little of everything. Even a dairy farm had a garden and a few pigs and chickens. At Woodcrest Farm in western Orange County, Chris and Allan Green run a family farm in the traditional…
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By Emily Buehler, Weaver Street Market Website Coordinator Ever since using the “Use-Yer-Foot” hand washer at the Shakori Hills Grassroots Music Festival in 2007, I’d wanted to visit Turtle Run Farm, home of the inventor, Kevin Meehan. This year [2008] on the Farm Tour weekend, I was once again out at Shakori Hills, surrounded by…
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I first visited Whitted Bowers Farm in Cedar Grove in 2008, just a year after the farm had started. The long driveway crossed a huge open space, flanked with dirt-covered fields just waiting for their time to come. Rob and Cheri Bowers had bought the land only two years earlier. The couple had met at…
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By Emily Buehler, Weaver Street Market Website Coordinator With two perfectly sunny days last weekend, the 2009 Piedmont Farm Tour was certainly a success—we’ll let you know the numbers when they’ve been tallied. I visited the new Maple View Farm Agricultural Center, located across the fields from the well-known Country Store on Dairyland Road between…
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One of the new farms on the Farm Tour this year [2013], Waterdog Farms in Hurdle Mills offers a restful, scenic experience and a chance to dip your feet in the Flat River. Rickie White and Christopher Fipps jumped into farming when the perfect farm came along. They lived in Carrboro but knew they wanted…
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Dani and Austin Genke’s journey to Boxcarr Farms in Cedar Grove began in New York City, where they met working at a restaurant while Austin was in culinary school. When Austin graduated, Dani followed him to his first job in Las Vegas, but they knew they wanted a different kind of restaurant: one that used …
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You’ve probably driven or biked past Hogan’s Magnolia View Farm hundreds of times. Just north of Carrboro, it’s located at that spot where Hillsborough Road comes to a “T” intersection, and you’re faced not with houses or new apartments or the entrance to yet another shopping center, but with a wide green field bordered by…
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Long furrows stretch out across the flat expanse of tilled ground at Transplanting Traditions Community Farm. Poking up from the earth are familiar plants like lettuce and onion, as well as naked stalks of lemongrass. The Farm is a project of the Orange County Partnership for Young Children (OCPYC ) that works to adapt refugee…
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