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William Rand Kenan, Jr. graduated from UNC in 1894 and after his death left an endowment with the N.C. State Dairy Farm. In 2012, the museum was established and designed to help both kids and adults understand milk production. Kenan helped discover acetylene but was predominantly interested in the raising and research connected to Jersey cows.
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Located in Banner Elk, Apple Hill Farm shifted to an agritourism model in 2006. Guided tours allow guests to learn about the raising of alpacas and sending fiber off to be made into yarn.
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Open since 2004, the North Carolina Baseball Museum in Wilson has 5,000 plus artifacts including, special exhibits relevant to seven National Hall of Famers born in North Carolina. Most of this nonprofit museum's artifacts are donations and gifts, while others are on loan. Construction of the museum started in 1999 on the grounds of historic Fleming Stadium.
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"Several invasive species threaten North Carolina's ecosystems and agricultural crops." The worst culprits noted are the emerald ash borer and hemlock woolly adelgid.
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John Hall started his choose-and-cut tree farm The Christmas Tree Patch, just outside of Sanford, N.C. in 1956.
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Agribusiness jobs are on the rise in North Carolina and throughout the nation as well. North Carolina schools, like North Carolina A&T State University, are preparing students for jobs in agribusiness by offering new majors and degrees.
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In 2014, Matt Register and wife Jessica opened Southern Smoke Barbecue in Garland, North Carolina. Garland was hit hard by Hurricane Florence. Register and other chefs hosted a series of events that raised more than $400,000 for hurricane relief.
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"Cattlewoman AJ Stanaland lives her childhood ream of easing cattle and selling farm-to-table beef in a new old-fashioned way," Northwest Land & Cattle in Brunswick county opened an on-farm retail business this summer. the business offers individual cuts of beef and pork but otherwise sales are by the box to encourage use of the whole animal.
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44313
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"Videri Chocolate Factory in Raleigh creates chocolate confections from bean to bar." the business opened in 2011 and is one of the few "bean-to-bar" chocolate makers in North Carolina.
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"Meet two North Carolina businesses making socks straight from sheep farms and cotton mills." noted are Farm to Feet in Mount Airy and Mayo Mills in Tarboro. About 170 workers are employed in the Mount Airy facility, which is a leading manufacturer of performance merino wool socks. Mayo mills has done custom work for George H.W. Bush and NASA.
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"NC State Plant Sciences Building provides infrastructure for crucial agriculture research." The 185,000 square foot building provides for interdisciplinary research supporting the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative. PSI's mission is to congregate shared ideas for formulating projects.
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"New appreciation grows for this old Southern green." North Carolina is the third largest producer of collards in the nation behind South Carolina and Georgia. Collards can be grown from seeds or as transplants. In recent years, production of collards as a specialty crop has more than doubled. Featured in this article are Jeff and Lisa Bender of Bender Farms Inc. in Norlina.
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"Kamal Bell inspires a new generation of Black farmers, through growing food, beekeeping and beyond." Begun in 2016, the Sankofa Farms Agricultural Academy instructs African American males 11-17, the importance of connecting with regenerative farming. Learning beekeeping is an introductory activity for the students.
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From as far back as the early 1800s, the Woody family has been renowned for chair making not only in North Carolina but around the world. Both Jimmy Woody of Mitchell County and a cousin Max Woody of McDowell County continue an 18th Century tradition and purely American form of chair construction that uses neither nails, screws nor glue in the manufacturing process, but rather the joining of high moisture wood onto kiln-dried wood of the same species. The wetter wood shrinks making the chair almost indestructible. Brothers Arval and Walter Woody once made a chair for President John F. Kennedy, now in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
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The northern coastal counties of North Carolina have ideal soil conditions for growing potatoes. Discussed are John E. Ferebee Farming Inc., a century -old operation in Camden County and Black Gold Farms also in Camden and Columbia, NC
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