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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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It’s always a treat to be in a restaurant and see a “we buy local!” sign. I tend to assume that restaurants buy food from large companies, since I so…
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The Farm Tour has many “favorites”—farms that get 500-600 visitors each day, where kids can ogle giant hogs, pecking chickens, and herding-dog puppies. But not all Farm Tourists enjoy wading…
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Cecilia Redding started Down 2 Earth Farms on 143 acres in Rougemont, NC. She’d been working in the food industry as an agricultural engineer but pursued her dream to farm…
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Carolyn Twesten and Steve Rankin bought a run-down tobacco farm in 2010. It had no plumbing or electricity and an antique, inoperable well. They moved onto the land in a…
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Joanna Lelekacs started farming a month after her first date with Bill, an active farmer; a year later they were married. Now [2009], while working other full time jobs, Bill…
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