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Continue ReadingOn the Farm Tour: Eco Farm
Cindy and John Soehner are the farmers behind Eco Farm, 23 acres west of Carrboro. With the help of their children, they produce year-round produce, shiitakes and strawberries, flowers, eggs, and their famous sungolds. When we visited Eco Farm on the Piedmont Farm Tour, we found John under on e of the sheds behind his…
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On the Farm Tour: Cedar Grove Windy Hill Farm
These photos are from our visit to Cedar Grove Windy Hill Farm, during the 2013 Piedmont Farm Tour. There’s a ton of stuff to see at this diverse family farm. A very brief video is included below.
On the Farm Tour: Bluebird Meadows
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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On the Farm Tour: Avillion Farm
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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On the Farm Tour: Woodcrest Farm
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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On the Farm Tour: Turtle Run Farm
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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On the Farm Tour: Whitted Bowers Farm
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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On the Farm Tour: Maple View Farm Agricultural Center
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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