A photo gallery from our 2011 visit to Everlaughter Farm.
Continue ReadingOn The Farm Tour: Chapel Hill Creamery
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 the state often needed to import milk. Undaunted, they purchased land south of Dairyland Road and cleared and converted it to pasture with a mix…
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Granite Springs Farm
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, and craftsmen. Meredith and her husband Ed started the farm west of Pittsboro in 2009. “It was an expression of hope,” she says, “because he…
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