Category Archives: farm tours

CFSA Farm Tour – Edible Earthscape

Carolina Farm Stewardship Association now runs two farm tours per year, one in the Spring and another in the Fall.  The Spring tour has been going on for quite some time, but the Fall tour is in its infancy, this … Continue reading

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CFSA Farm Tour – Perry-winkle Farm

Our last stop on the CFSA Farm Tour was Perry-winkle Farm in Chapel Hill, NC. Cathy Jones and Mike Perry farm roughly three and a half acres of intense vegetable and flower production. They also have chickens for eggs and … Continue reading

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CFSA Farm Tour – Eco Farm

Our second stop on the farm tour was Eco Farm, a small diverse operation in Orange County, NC. Eco is run by Cindy and John Soehner and has been in operation since 1995.     John proclaimed that the large … Continue reading

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CFSA Farm Tour – Braeburn/Cane Creek Farm

Our first stop on the CFSA Farm Tour was Wells Branch Farm in Alamance County. Wells Branch is a combination of Braeburn Farm and Cane Creek Farm. The farm consists of roughly 500 acres built up over time with the … Continue reading

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Buckner before the farm tour

This past weekend Noel, Danielle, Mike and I went to the 13th Annual CFSA Farm Tour. We drove up Saturday night to the land in Silk Hope, ate dinner at Chatham Marketplace and sat in the camper trying to figure … Continue reading

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Piedmont Farm Tour (CFSA)

The 13th Annual Piedmont Farm Tour is this weekend, and I’m going to be hitting a few farms on Sunday with Noel and Danielle. I haven’t been to a farm tour although I have always wanted to.   The farm … Continue reading

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CFSA Farm Tour – DIG and SEEDS

The third and finally stop on the farm tour was the dual urban gardens of Durham Inner City Gardeners (DIG) and Southeastern Efforts Developing Sustainable Spaces (SEEDS). The DIG program is youth oriented and works 1/2 acre of land. They … Continue reading

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CFSA Farm Tour – Anathoth Community Garden

The second stop on the farm tour was the Anathoth Community Garden in Cedar Grove, NC, a rural town of less than 1,000 people. Following the murder of a town member a few years ago, the community got together to … Continue reading

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CFSA Farm Tour – Duke Forest Ecovillage

Last Friday, as part of the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association’s annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference, I went on a farm tour focused on how agriculture and community can come together. There were three sites on the tour. This post deals with … Continue reading

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