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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

2012 Piedmont Farm Tour

2012 Piedmont Farm Tour: America's Biggest Sustainable Farm Tour!

Saturday and Sunday, April 28-29
Farms open from 1-5pm

Come learn about the Triangle's local and organic farm & food scene.
Meet local farmers & tour their farms!


To Take the Tour:Load up a car with your friends and family, choose the farms on the map you'd like to visit and get out in the countryside! The tour is self-guided and farms and sites are located throughout the Triangle in Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Orange, and Person counties. Visit any farm in any order.

And, don't forget to take a cooler so that you can take home some of the farm fresh products for sale at many farms!

Farm Tour Brochure (.pdf)
- Read about the farms, lots of maps, & more!
Interactive Map - Read about the farms, plan your stops and get driving directions!

Buy Your Tickets
1. Advance tickets
are $25 per car for ALL farms, ALL weekend.

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> You can now purchase your tickets at our tour co-sponsor, Weaver Street Market, at their locations in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough, and at Chatham Marketplace in Pittsboro, and Harmony Farms in Raleigh.


2. DAY OF THE TOUR TICKETS are $30 for all farms, $10 per farm (Buy buttons at the first farm you visit.)


To Volunteer:
Volunteer one afternoon and attend the whole tour for FREE! Volunteers get an insider
view of farms, have lots of fun and get a free T-shirt!

Email Fred to volunteer!

Special Tour for Young and Beginning FarmersIf you are a beginning farmer (less than 10 years experience), you can take our VIP minibus tour for just $3!
This gets you a ride with special guest experts, materials, a button for taking the farm tour the other day, snacks, and prizes.
We will meet at Fifth Season Gardening in Carrboro at 12:45, back by 5 PM.
This is a very limited offer and will sell out soon.
Buy your ticket now!
Saturday's Horticulture Tour: We'll focus on horticulture at Turtle Run Farm, Millarckee Farm and Harland's Creek Farm. Eric Soderholm, CFSA's Organic Transition Coordinator, will be your host.
Sunday's Livestock Tour: We'll focus on livestock at Hogan's Magnolia View Farm (not on the regular tour), Coon Rock Farm and Walters Unlimited at Carls-Beth Farm. Tim Holmes, Lead Certifier for Animal Welfare Approved, and Amy Saltmarsh of NCSU, will be your hosts.
Note that this will be a technical training event and is not open to children or non-farmers. One tour event max per person. Many thanks to our sponsor the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture and grant partner the National Center for Appropriate Technology.
Questions: Contact the CFSA office at 919-542-2402 or email Fred.

> Check out this excellent video by the Interfaith Food Shuttle's Mitra Sticklen about their Young Farmer Training Program Apprentice Tour during the 2011 Piedmont Farm Tour!


Questions?The tour is both an educational event and a fundraiser for CFSA, a 33-year old a non-profit organization that helps people in the Carolinas grow and eat local, organic food by advocating for fair farm and food policies, building the systems that family farmers need to thrive and educating communities about local, organic farming. Weaver Street Market has been an essential partner in building the Piedmont Farm Tour into a Triangle institution.

Questions? Call CFSA 919.542.2402.


Proudly sponsored by:
weaver st market
cfsa

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