Considering Agritourism for Your Operation: Definitions, Activities, Farm Stays - Beyond the Corn Maze! Have you considering adding agritourism to your farm operation? What are some of the activities to consider beyond the corn maze? This answer depends mostly on your farm focus and the skills and activities that are easiest for you to share. [...]
Record Keeping Methods for Farms Keeping records is hard! The key is finding the right mix of methods, tools, and automations that work for you. Don't have time to research all that? Who does? A bookkeeper. This seminar, led by farm bookkeeper and tax expert Laurel Clabaugh, will cover different ways to effectively keep records [...]
Mushrooms can be a powerful way to diversify farm revenue—but success depends on choosing a model that aligns with your farm’s scale, infrastructure, and market realities. This hands-on workshop focuses on the business and operational considerations of adding mushrooms to an existing farm. We’ll explore scalable production models, space and infrastructure requirements, startup and operating [...]
August 2017 -- Molly Riddle is a native of Burnsville, NC and currently attends Brevard College, where she is majoring in Environmental Studies with a focus on Sustainable Agriculture. Her interest in agriculture began when she participated in a 4-H program as a senior in high school. She recently started a student group at [...]
August 2017 -- Shannon Herlihy is a rising senior at UNC-Asheville. She is majoring in Environmental Studies, minoring in Health and Wellness, and has designed her own concentration focusing on Food, Land, and Community. Growing up outside of Baltimore, MD, Shannon was not exposed to farms or farmers, but developed an interest in agriculture [...]
August 2017 -- Kristen is a rising junior at UNC- Chapel Hill, where she is majoring in Environmental Science, with a focus on Energy Management. She became involved with local foods when she joined a student organization at UNC called Hope Gardens, which focuses on food access. She met her apprenticeship mentor, Ann Simpson, [...]
August 2017 -- Chase is a rising sophomore at UNC Chapel Hill, studying business. He has lived most of his life in Jacksonville, NC, where both his parents retired from the military after being stationed at Camp Lejeune. He recognizes that most people with military affiliations live their lives moving from place to place, [...]
August 2017 -- Casey Auch is a rising senior at UNC-Wilmington, studying English and Professional Writing. Early in her college career Casey got involved in environmental activism, and soon turned her attention to local food because it unites her interests in community development and environmental protection. Last summer she interned with The Lord's Acre, [...]
July 2017 -- Taylor Hayes graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill last December with degrees in Southern Studies and Information Science. She has hands-on production experience, having worked in community gardens through high school and on farms all through college; she currently works with Ran-Lew Dairy in Snow Camp, NC. Taylor was interested in the apprenticeship with Piedmont Food [...]
July 2017 -- Chanel Nestor graduated from NC A&T with a B.A. in Sociology and a M.A. in Agricultural Education. Her interests in agriculture began well before her undergraduate work, when she was exposed to small-scale beef production as a child growing up in Davidson County, NC. She continued dabbling in this interest with [...]
