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Ours is a small family - owned and operated farm located in the rolling hills of the Piedmont Triad area of Guilford county in North Carolina.
This land has been in our family since 1796. Family history says that two brothers from Berk county, Pennsylvania came down here; liked what they saw and decided to stay.
My father was born in the house I currently live in. His father built it in 1915.
Where once grew tobacco, are now fields of grain and seasonal fruits/vegetables. Dad started blueberries back in the 80's and blackberries were put in about five years later. But no one, at that time, cared much for blackberries. So, Dad pulled them out and we planted more blueberry plants. These days blackberries are all the rage.
As did my father and his father before him, I save seeds - it's the heirlooms that I store away. Once, years ago, Dad started a small garden at the end of an old field, mostly tomatoes. Around August (that year) some volunteers came up.
Dad hadn't seen these plants since he was a kid: Ground Cherries. There's no telling how long the seeds had been there. We'd had the field in wheat and orchardgrass for years. I saved the seeds and planted some closer to the house.
When I was but a wee lad, [I remember] finding mason jars full of bean seeds, that my grandfather had tucked away in the wall of an old tobacco barn. These days our seeds are kept in the freezer; they keep viable for years.
This is a working farm and our home - [for insurance reasons & now covid-19 ] we don't accept visitors to our property without an appointment.
Ours is a small family - owned and operated farm located in the rolling hills of the Piedmont Triad area of Guilford county in North Carolina.
This land has been in our family since 1796. Family history says that two brothers from Berk county, Pennsylvania came down here; liked what they saw and decided to stay.
My father was born in the house I currently live in. His father built it in 1915.
Where once grew tobacco, are now fields of grain and seasonal fruits/vegetables. Dad started blueberries back in the 80's and blackberries were put in about five years later. But no one, at that time, cared much for blackberries. So, Dad pulled them out and we planted more blueberry plants. These days blackberries are all the rage.
As did my father and his father before him, I save seeds - it's the heirlooms that I store away. Once, years ago, Dad started a small garden at the end of an old field, mostly tomatoes. Around August (that year) some volunteers came up.
Dad hadn't seen these plants since he was a kid: Ground Cherries. There's no telling how long the seeds had been there. We'd had the field in wheat and orchardgrass for years. I saved the seeds and planted some closer to the house.
When I was but a wee lad, [I remember] finding mason jars full of bean seeds, that my grandfather had tucked away in the wall of an old tobacco barn. These days our seeds are kept in the freezer; they keep viable for years.
This is a working farm and our home - [for insurance reasons & now covid-19 ] we don't accept visitors to our property without an appointment.
