Scenes from the Farm Tour

Late last month, friends and I took our kids to several of the farms featured on the 15th Annual Piedmont Farm Tour. What a great way to spend an afternoon! It's loads of fun to watch the kids pet (and sometimes even hold) the baby animals, roam the farm fields and explore different ways to grow food.

What's more, it's amazing to learn about this rural, sustainable way of life, not very far from the suburban neighborhoods of Cary, Morrisville and Apex. It's not a glamorous lifestyle or a lucrative one, but local farmers are working so hard because growing good food in a healthy, sustainable way matters to them!

Some 40 farms and vineyards particpated in the Carolina Farm Stewarship Association (CFSA) farm tour, including several WWFM vendors. You can learn more about the tour and see videos and photos from the tour at CFSA's web site. Here are a few moments from our fun day!

Photos, top row: mushrooms growing on logs at ECO Farm; human kids with goat kid at Chapel Hill Creamery; Second row: pig grazing happily; Our Lady of the Hens sign at Pickard Mountain Community Garden; Bottom row: Baby chick love; glimpses of radishes; tomatoes growing in greenhouse.

CFSA hosts a spring and fall tour each year, and there are lots of other opportunities throughout the year to get out of town and onto the farms. Check back for more local food news!