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TerraVITA Sustainable Food & Wine Event
When: Saturday, October 16, from 1-5 p.m.
TerraVITA is bringing together many of our own devoted local chefs with others from across the state to offer samples made with locally grown, sustainable meats and produce. Marilyn Markel from A Southern Season will do a cooking demonstration creating a dish featuring pumpkin from one of our own – Roberson Creek Farm.
An Agricultural Experience Tour and “A Taste of Alamance” Dinner featuring Smith Angus Beef. Farm Bureau of Alamance County is proud to sponsor this 4th agricultural experience. This is an opportunity for folks in our county to see, learn and enjoy what’s grown and produced loccally in our county.
Secret Farm Hideaways: Fickle Creek Farm by Kim Cross and Diane Daniel Southern Living Farm Stay Vacations
Fickle Creek Farm: Building a Sustainable Community by Nancie McDermott, pages 26-27 in Summer 2010′s Edible Piedmont.
Farmers’ Market Plants Seeds for Sustainable Living by Ben Rosen in “ECHO” (East Chapel Hill Observer) from East Chapel Hill High School, Thursday, April 29, 2010.
Abraham Palmer from Box Turtle Bakery on WRAL Video blog: Carrboro baker talks about local grown grains Sunday, April 25th 2010 @ the 15th Annual Piedmont Farm Tour.
Holcomb, Jamie DeMent and the chef Marco Shaw at Coon Rock Farm
Richard & Jamie in the NYTimes! Coon Rock Farm was featured in April 25th 2010′s NYTimes Magazine: Fresh Direction: A Farm-to-Table Restaurant by Christine Muhlke.
Farmer captured digging a hole in the Citizen: Jeffry Goodrum of Seeing Stars Farm can be seen on page 7 of April 22nd, 2010′s Carrboro Citizen, helping to start renovations of University Mall and a new access road from 15-501.
Andrea Wood, our market manager, reports on the harsh winter in Spring heralds a rush to the fields, by Kirk Ross, Carrboro Citizen, 25 March 2010.
Abraham Palmer of Box Turtle Bakery is featured in Carrboro Citizen’s The Mill for March 2010. See A Tasty Way of Doing Good by Vicky Dickson on page 6.
Hillsborough Cheese Co. is featured in Craft Beer & Artisanal Cheese an article by Julie Johnson in the March 2010 issue of All About Beer
Okfuskee Farm was featured in the NYTimes Magazine (print Sunday 2/28/10). Field Report: Plow Shares is an article about NC’s very own local, community and “barn-raising” phenomena, the Crop Mob. Hardworking sefm farmer, Will Cramer of Ever Laughter Farm can be seen moving leaf mulch in the accompanying photo.
“Located just outside Chapel Hill, N.C., Fickle Creek Farm is the picture of sustainability—from its principles of permaculture to its commitment to community.” Farming in Sync with the Land by Carol Ekarius in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of Hobby Farm Magazine.
Okfuskee Farm was featured in Roving Farm Party Lends Many Hands by Andrew Kenney, Staff Writer of Chapel Hill News, published Jan 31, 2010.
Listen to Richard Holcomb of Coon Rock Farm discuss his heritage breed turkeys on WUNC’s The State of Things with Frank Stasio: A Local Thanksgiving on November 20, 2009.
