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Marc and Marianne Blazar opened a new restaurant at the Orchard Inn in Saluda, North Carolina. The cuisine is New American with an emphasis on sustainable farming, local produce and meats. The Blazars strive to reduce their carbon footprint and promote a healthier lifestyle.
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The Laurel of Asheville
(NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 13 Issue 2, February 2017,
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30746
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In Haywood County, volunteers are gleaning or gathering produce left in fields after commercial harvest. The leftover crops are either donated to feed the hungry or shipped to local grocers. Farmers are also contributing produce as an outlet for unsold goods, to receive state tax credit, and to help people in the community.
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Acre Station Meat Farm specializes as a butcher for hog and beef farmers who raise animals without steroids or antibiotics. By working with local farmers to create the custom meat cuts and unique value-added products that bring them business, Acre Station is helping to rebuild North Carolina’s local food economy.
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The nationwide trend toward locally-grown, organic food is bringing out the best in local farms. North Carolinians are partnering with their region’s farmers by signing up as members of the farms’ Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) cooperatives. They pay a set fee in advance to share in the farm’s produce, and help connect consumers with the source of their food.
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According to the State College Department of Field Crops, the highest crop yields in the state for six principal cops range from twice to four times as much as the state average. Tobacco, corn, cotton, peanuts, soybeans, and wheat are averaging 129 to 238 percent of the state average yields on Experiment Station plots, while many farmers are doing just as well.
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Wilson Daughtry grows Mattamuskeet Sweet Onions at his Hyde County farm, Alligator River Growers, in eastern North Carolina’s “blacklands”. The flavor and texture of this sweet onion variety depends on the climate, weather and peat soil near Lake Mattamuskeet. The onion is high in demand due to its short growth period in June and July.
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One of North Carolina’s most popular developments in recent years has been the “pick-out” operations, where people can pick their own strawberries directly from the berry patch. Carl and Rachel Dellinger operate a pick-out strawberry patch on their Gaston County farm each summer. This article discusses the Dellingers’ farm business and the duties involved in growing strawberries.
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The Watauga County Farmers Market attracts hundreds of people who come to socialize, and buy local farm produce and handicrafts. The farmers market is operated on a non-profit basis and was developed in 1973 by the New River Valley Resource Conservation and Development Project. The market organization has eighty members selling their merchandise.
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34283
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This section of Our State highlights the best places in North Carolina to find specialty items for a country meal. Places covered include meat from Smith’s Red & White in Rocky Mount, eggs from Massey Creek Farms in Madison, bread from Shiloh General Store in Hamptonville, milk from Mills River Creamery in Mills River, pimento cheese from Musten & Crutchfield in Kernersville, beer from Bestway Grocery in Greensboro, and chicken salad from Robert’s Grocery in Wrightsville Beach.
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Leonard and Nannie Mae Jordan built and owned Jordan’s Fruit and Produce Market in 1960 as an open-air curb market on South Cannon Boulevard in Kannapolis. The market boasted the freshest collection of cantaloupes, white cucumbers, and sweet corn in the Carolinas. In this article, the author describes her memories of the family farmer’s market.
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Sandhills Farm to Table is a Fayetteville based organization which aims to increase local food security. Customers of the cooperative receive weekly or biweekly grocery boxes which contain locally produced foods. Their subscription fees in turn support Sandhills farmers and artisans. Weekly boxes vary in what they contain, however contents will always be locally grown and delivered to a local drop off. In 2016, the co-op took in more than $500,000 in revenue, indicating the model was beneficial for all involved.
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The fourth annual symposium of the Southern Foodways Alliance continued the trend of valuing traditions associated with Southern cooking culture and the region’s farming industry. Discussed during this symposium was challenges that contemporary regional farmers face, due to the USDA’s implementing the corporate farm mentality. Also highlighted was challenges of maintaining Southern cooking cultural traditions, with an increasingly diverse and transient regional population.
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Anyone with a taste for fresh food such as produce, seafood, and bread can also “shop local.” Greenville has Leroy James Farmers Market, The Uptown Market, Briley’s Farm Market, and Get Right Farmers Market. In Bethel: The Community Food Hub and Carolina Country Fresh. Winterville provides The Market on the Square, Brocks Berries and Produce Farm, and Strawberries on 903. As for Robersonville, it also offers a Carolina Country Fresh.
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Jacob Morgan works full time as the Extension Director for Jones County. In 2017, he and wife Candice purchased a 15 acre farm in Trenton and one year later launched Morgan Meats LLC, a small business that sells fresh pork products to grocery stores, consumers and farmers markets.
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