Aberdeen Locals Add Eggcellent Farmstand to Area

The Cluck Stops Here  This summer, twin sisters and Aberdeen neighbors Michelle Barnes and Amy Ference decided to sell extra produce from their gardens and eggs collected from their 15 [...]

Local Eucalyptus: Eu Better Beleaf It

Eu Better Beleaf It Money doesn’t grow on trees, but silver dollars do. Krista Simons established Watering Rock Eucalyptus farm around a year ago. Now she has a small eucalyptus grove [...]

You Can Rent a Zoo

We Herd You Like Animals Did you know you can rent a mobile petting zoo? You can, from the Pint Sized Pasture in Sanford. Owners Patrick Kelly and Katelyn James started growing crops when they [...]

Order Local Raised Beef Boxes From Terrace Ridge Farm

He’s Raising the Steaks Meat Matthew Parker, a fourth-generation beef farmer. Matthew started working with the herd as a kid and now specializes in beef and hay at his farm, Terrace Ridge, [...]

Patch Us Pumpkin Picking at Parkwood Farm

Union Pines High School agricultural teacher, Thadd Davis, has been growing pumpkins since he was 18. His hobby has grown over the years into Parkwood Farm in Carthage, where he specializes in [...]