18th Annual Piedmont Farm Tour 2013

The 2013 Piedmont Farm Tour is happening April 27-28 from 1-5pm both days!

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

Check out the Interactive Map for a list of the 39 exceptional farms on the tour this year – with driving directions!

Farm Tour Brochure – COMING SOON!

Buy Your 2013 Tickets Online – Buy your ticket 

Load up a car with your friends and family, choose the farms you’d like to visit on the map or brochure below 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. RAIN OR SHINE.
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!

Interactive Map

Avillion Farm

4737 Shanklins Dead End Rd, Efland: Our farm is home to fiber-producing livestock – Shetland, Jacob sheep for wool, Angora goats for mohair and Angora rabbits for angora. Fiber from our livestock i...

Benjamin Vineyards & Winery

6516 Whitney Rd, Graham: Come see the sustainable practices and unique trellising we use to grow Muscadine grapes, as well as French and French hybrid wine grapes. Enjoy a wine tasting in the winery,...

Boxcarr Farms

2207 Carr Store Rd, Cedar Grove:    We are a family of chefs, artists, and artisans who started a small farm. We are now entering our third year farming. Our catering business and food truck, Local i...

Cane Creek Farm / Braeburn Farm

1203 Longest Acre Rd, Snow Camp:    Situated next door to each other, both farms share many acres of pasture, housing several hundred pigs of multiple breeds, grass-fed New Zealand Red Devon cattle, ...

Captain J. S. Pope Farm

6909 Efland-Cedar Grove Rd, Cedar Grove: Tour the historic farm that has been in the family for over 200 years and see farming as it was and the evolution from tobacco.. Guided tour of the 150 year ...

Cedar Grove Windy Hill Farm - NEW!

1319 Carr Store Road, Cedar Grove: Come see our scenic and historic farm dating back to at least the early 1800s. You will enjoy meeting our friendly goats (learn about hoof trimming and try your ha...

Celebrity Dairy

198 Celebrity Dairy Way, Siler City: Changes are happening toward Celebrity Dairy's goal to start an "Incubator Farm". The irrigation pond site has been cleared and the dam may be under construction ...

Chapel Hill Creamery

615 Chapel Hill Creamery Rd, Chapel Hill: Our contented Jersey cows graze lush pastures in a comfortable, low stress environment. Take a  draft horse hayride, see calves kick up their heels,  a...

Coon Rock Farm

1021 Dimmocks Mill Rd, Hillsborough: Coon Rock Farm is a sustainable family farm providing garden crops and pasture raised antibiotic and hormone free chicken, eggs, pigs, lamb and goat on 55 acres n...

Dancing Pines Farm

3606 Buckhorn Rd, Efland: Come see our small-scale, chemical-free produce farm. Phase two of our new post-harvest structure is complete! We grow year-round with our two hoop houses and sell at the Ch...

Eco Farm

2501 Butler Rd, Chapel Hill: Come visit our family farm, roam our vegetable fields, pick some strawberries,learn how to inoculate shiitake logs or hang out with our hogs. www.ecofarmnc.com ecofarmnc@...

Ever Laughter Farm

2921 Open Lane, Hillsborough: Come see our farm developing according to a "permaculture" master plan.  In its fifth year, this farm uses sustainable methods to grow a wide variety of vegetables ...
 
Fickle Creek Farm

4122 Buckhorn Rd, Efland:   Something for everyone! Eggmobiles, sheep & lambs, steers, pastured pigs, Freedom Ranger broilers, ducks, Great Pyrenees livestock guard dogs, market garden. Self-guided to...

Flat River Nursery & Farm

1548 Holeman Ashley Rd, Timberlake: Family farm since 1700s. See greenhouse tomatoes, cukes, bedding plants, hanging baskets, herbs, beneficial insects, and bumble bee pollination. Pick your own stra...

Four Leaf Farm

6815 Bill Poole Rd, Rougemont: Four Leaf Farm has 1/4 acre of intensively planted permanent raised beds, two greenhouses, active composting, perennial gardens, plant nursery, a small laying flock, s...

Granite Springs Farm - NEW!

266 Granite Springs Rd, Pittsboro: We are in our 5th year of growing vegetables and pastured laying hens. Come meet our chickens! Plus, check out our greenhouse, 95 foot long hoop house, and field p...

Harland's Creek Farm

97 Plantation Drive, Pittsboro: Our farm will have vegetables and herbs in the field and ready to harvest. We operate CSAs with deliveries in Chapel Hill, Chatham County, Durham, Raleigh, and Sanford...

Herb Haven

7729 McBane Mill Rd, Graham: Herb Haven is a 6-acre botanical sanctuary dedicated to the growing, rehabilitation, preservation and usage of over 60 medicinal plants easily grown in the Piedmont. Com...

Iron Gate Winery

2540 Lynch Store Rd., Mebane:    The winery is situated on 60 acres north of Mebane.  Visitors will see how an old tobacco farm has been turned into 8 acres of vineyards. Come see our beautiful anima...

Maple Spring Gardens

9812 Allison Rd, Cedar Grove: In business since 1984, Maple Spring Gardens produces over 100 varieties of vegetables, herbs, berries, and cut flowers on what was once a worn-out tobacco farm. Gr...

Millarckee Farm

6833 Bethel South Fork Rd, Snow Camp: Millarckee Farm has been growing vegetables organically for 25+ years. The efficient bed/path/crop rotational system has allowed farmers to reduce outside inputs...

Minka Farm

120 Minka Farm Ln, Efland:  There's always something new at Minka Farm! Self-guided tour about our many animals, pasture management, pond health, our new hatchery, how our new meat goats will contro...

Perry-winkle Farm

1061 White Cross Rd, Chapel Hill: Come see fields of sustainably-grown vegetables, cutflowers, pastured poultry in “Egg-mobiles” and “Chicken Tractors” and pigs plowing up organic matter. Check out o...
 
Piedmont Biofarm, Screech Owl Greenhouse

192 Lorax Lane, Pittsboro: Visit Doug Jones's year-round vegetable, crop research, and seed production farm, as well as Screech Owl's hydroponic produce greenhouse.    Doug's farm features movable ...

Piedmont Food & Agricultural Processing Center

FEATURED PARTNER, 500 Valley Forge Rd, Hillsborough www.orangecountyfarms.org/pfap/

Pine Knot Farm

8906 Hester Rd, Hurdle Mills: Third generation minority farmer raising certified organic vegetables:  sweet potatoes, soybeans, collards, cabbage, kale and turnip greens. Pastured-raised poultry and ...

W C Breeze Family Farm Ag Ext & Research Center

4909 Walnut Grove Church Road, Hurdle Mill: Come see how we grow vegetables and new farmers! Rooted in an 8-week workshop series offered each winter, beginning farmers learn skills and then leas...

Saxapahaw Village Farm

6042 Swepsonville-Saxapahaw Road, Graham: Come see a rainbow flock of heritage hens; follow Jersey cows and two rare breeds of sheep in an elaborate pasture dance. Enjoy dairy calves frolicking along...

Spence's Community Farm for Children

6407 Mill House Rd, Chapel Hill: This family-friendly farm features beautiful pastures, horse rides and lots of chickens and goats.  See how we grow fruits and vegetables, and take care of our wonde...

The Student Farm at CCCC

764 West St, Pittsboro:  Visitors will tour vegetable production areas, learn about organic production practices that include crop rotation, cover-cropping and incorporating livestock into the field...

Sunset Farms

6225 N Carolina 49, Burlington:    We are a multi-generational, naturally grown produce and pasture-based livestock farm. We are working with animal and crop rotations to produce a "closed-loop" sust...

Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm

465 Yarborough Rd, Roxboro: Take a narrated covered wagon tour of scenic rolling pastures where grass-fed buffalo roam. See NC's second largest bison herd at this seventh generation family farm - ma...

Timberwood Organics

4619 Timberwood Trail, Efland: Certified organic family-owned farm producing quality produce and herbs since 1989 for sale at the Carrboro Farmers Market, CSA, restaurants, and stores.  Delicious hom...

Transplanting Traditions Community Farm

2912 B Jones Ferry Rd, Chapel Hill: Transplanting Traditions Community Farm is a 3 acre educational farm that works specifically with the Karen Burmese refugee community. This farm grows crops known...

Turtle Run Farm

5776 Rumley Rd, Graham: Raised bed vegetable operation, worm composting demo, cultured alfalfa fertilizer demo, cypress greenhouse, pioneer cabin, spring fed pond, garden plant sale including our del...

Two Chicks Farm

3800 Mallory Ct, Hillsborough (located at end of street down gravel driveway):  No chickens here, but a small farm built from scratch in our sixth year. We use sustainable practices and grow year rou...

Walters Unlimited at Carls-Beth Farm

7119 High Rock Rd, Efland: We are a chemical free farm that has a 100% grass fed beef operation that utilizes mob grazing practices. Our 400 laying hen operation is pasture based. The hog portion is...

Waterdog Farm - NEW!

904 Terry Road, Hurdle Mills:    Come see our beautiful 10 acre farm nestled on the Flat River. You'll learn how we use sustainable methods to grow native flowers, heirloom produce, and our specialty...

Wild Hare Farm

9836 Allison Rd., Cedar Grove: We raise a variety of beautiful cut flowers, vegetables, and strawberries. These products are sold at the Carrboro Farmers’ Market, to Weaver Street Market, local rest...

Windy Acres Farm

7624 Harmony Church Rd, Efland:    Visitors will be able to pet and feed our goats, as well as see our strawberry field and cold weather crops. We use manure and other natural methods for fertilizer ...
18th Annual Piedmont Farm Tour 2013
April 27 - 28, 1 - 5 PM. Come learn about the Triangle's local and organic farm/food scene. Meet local farmers and tour their beautiful farms. Great for the whole family. Info/tickets at www.carolinafarmstewards.org Advanced tickets are $25 per carload. Founding co-sponsors are Carolina Farm Stewardship Assoc. & Weaver Street Market. (Volunteer one afternoon & get in free. Contact fred@carolinafarmstewards.org.)
Note: Bring a cooler to purchase from the farms. No pets allowed on the tour.