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Jane Saiers and Darin Knapp arrived at farming by a circuitous route involving degrees in neuroscience and psychology and an overabundance of blueberries. Jane worked for twenty years in medical…
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Cathy Jones began gardening in 1975 when she moved to this area. Her husband, Mike Perry, was a Chapel Hill native—he used to watch his dad play softball on the field…
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Alex and Betsy began Peregrine Farm west of Chapel Hill in 1981 and grew cut flowers, small fruit, and vegetables for local markets. They had degrees in Soils (Alex) and…
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Lee and Larry Newlin are farming a beautiful piece of land on the Haw River west of Chapel Hill.  The farm has eight market gardens on which Larry rotates crops…
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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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