The first stop was Correll Farms, a mid sized operation with produce, beef, and plants. There are 5 generations of farmers here and it really shows that this is a family business.
No asparagus left here!
Garlic and spring onions
Blue Ridge Kale
Cabbage
Butterhead lettuce
Fennel, lettuce, cabbage
Baby tomato rows
Next stop was Circle D Beef, completely family owned and operated. Although YJDKIY doesn't really eat any form of beef, it was really interesting to learn the history of that particular farm and see what goes on throughout the year and see the new practices such as strip grazing, combined with time-honored family traditions that go into these grass-fed beefs.
farm house
inside the 1800s barn
mini-strip grazing
making the feed right there on the farm - no corn, all barley
barn and happy cows
Last on the tour was Bame Farms, a very small, startup type farm. Both Andy and his wife have full time jobs and work their farm after that. They use rotational grazing of cows, goats and chickens, and have lots of other animals.
eggspecialty
free range chicken and chicken tractors
hogs...seriously thinking twice about ever eating this again, and these are even living pretty well.
rabbit rabbit rabbit
newly born chicks
Local food!
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I took my nice point & shoot on this trip, but ended up, once again, taking all photos with my iPhone. I've decided with photography, you either go big or go home iPhone. There just isn't use for that middle range digital camera anymore, I can get just as decent pics with the iPhone (especially outdoors) and the P&S doesn't allow me to do the fancy photographer things that a nice camera does.
Bravo! I loved this post :-) Thanks for sharing.
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