| # |
Tour Title |
Areas Visited |
Contact |
| 1 |
Foothills Nursery Crop & American Heritage Tour |
Hawksridge container nursery, Hart's Square, Hefner’s Nursery, Daddy Pete’s Dairy Farm & Compost operation |
Craig Adkins
Donna Teasley
|
| 2 |
Sampson County Ag |
Warren Farming Co (row crops & swine), DL&B Enterprises (vegetables), Triple M Farms (swine & cattle), Sampson Co. Livestock Facility |
George Upton (910) 592-7161 |
| 3 |
Biltmore Estate |
Winery, historic horse barn, kitchen and bramble garden. Historic Biltmore House and Gardens. |
Linda Blue
Cliff Ruth
|
| 4 |
Tobacco’s Historical Roots & Modern Operations |
Tour of a local tobacco farm, Duke Homestead State Historical Site where the Duke family’s financial empire began, RJ Reynolds Tobacco manufacturing facility. |
Art Bradley
Roger Cobb
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| 5 |
Carolina Cotton |
Cotton Incorporated US headquarters & research facility, Cone Spinning Mill, and Syngenta Crop Protection |
Art Bradley (252) 641-7815 |
| 6 |
Beef, Antique Tractors, Tomatoes, Exotic Animals and Racing |
David Ridling, 4R Farm of show animals and animal ID, Tom Smith Farm of antique John Deere tractors, Patterson Tomato Farm, Lazy 5 exotic animals ranch, and Penske Racing shop. |
Jim Cowden (704) 216-8970 |
| 7 |
Rowan County II |
North Carolina Transportation Museum with train ride, Biotechnology Research Center in Kannapolis, DEI Race shop tour, Old Stone Winery tour, Lexington Farmers Market |
Jim Cowden
Darrell Blackwelder (704) 216-8970
|
| 8 |
Upper Piedmont Foothills Tour |
Horne Creek Farms State Historical Site, Pilot Mountain State Park, Mayberry tour with lunch at Mt. Airy, Gerards Bakery and Mike Gillespie diversified farm of crops and registered Angus. |
Tim Hambrick (336) 703-2850
Joanna Radford
|
| 9 |
Beef Cattle & Specialty Markets |
Shallowford Popcorn, fully integrated operation; Buck Shoals Vineyard and Winery; Shiloh General Store; Bledsoe Farms, beef cattle; W-4 Farms, angus cattle and crops; Johnson’s Farm, beef cattle and row crops and Gerards Bakery of specialty breads |
Nancy Keith
Bryan Cave Phil Rucker (336) 679-2061
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| 10 |
World’s Largest Sweet Potato Operation and Commercial Cucumber Production |
Nash Produce, one of the largest cucumber processing facilities in the U.S. Barnes Farming and Fresh Pak is the world's largest sweetpotato grower, packer, and shipper. The Tobacco Farm Life Museum is preserving the history and cultural heritage of Eastern North Carolina farm life. |
Billy Little
Mike Wilder
|
| 11 |
Sustainable Agriculture |
Peregrine Farms, diversified small farm that produces vegetables, cut flowers, blueberries, and pastured turkeys. Harland's Creek Farm, certified organic farm. Mini trade show at lunch. Tour Piedmont Biofuels and Eastern Carolina Organics. Carborro Farmers Market |
Debbie Roos |
| 12 |
Tobacco and Trees, the old and the new |
Hill Forest (NCSU research forest), Flue-cured Growers Cigarette Manufacturing (lunch here), Mountain Creek Farm (beef cattle), Duke Homestead |
Karen McAdams
Derek Day
|
| 13 |
Central Piedmont Beef |
NCSU Beef Cattle Research Unit at Butner, Kingsmill II (lunch), Braeburn Farms (cattle) |
Karen McAdams
Derek Day
|
| 14 |
Farming on the Urban Edge |
Thompson Freshwater Prawns, Maple Spring Gardens (organic farm), Rock of Ages winery and vineyards (lunch here), Maple View Dairy (dairy, milk, ice cream) |
Karen McAdams
Derek Day
|
| 15 |
Horticulture – Durham County |
Piedmont Carolina Nursery. Hoffman Nursery, ornamental grasses. SEEDS (South Eastern Efforts Developing Sustainable Spaces), community garden. NC Botanical Gardens. |
Mark Danieley
Michelle Wallace
|
| 16 |
Balloons, Dairy & Wine Tour |
Firefly Balloons, largest manufacturer of hot air balloons. Rocky Creek Dairy and Myers Farm, large diary operations. Shiloh General Store and RagApple Lassie Vineyards and Winery. |
Nancy Keith |
| 17 |
Piedmont Wine, Dairy, and History Tour |
Hart's Square, Corey Lutz Diary (grazing diary). Combine with Kevin Starr Fruit and Wine tour proposal. |
Jeff Carpenter |
| 18 |
Sandhills Agri-tourism |
Goat Lady Dairy, Garrett Johnson’s Peach and Produce Farm, Kulawi Farms (Peach, produce stands), Crystal Pines Alpaca Farm (Produce and petting zoo)
Sandhills Research Station
|
Taylor Williams, Craven Hudson |
| 19 |
Turfgrass Tour |
NCSU Sandhills Research Farm, Sandhills Turf Farm (turf grass farm), Pinehurst Resorts (turf and landscaping divisions) |
Randy Wood
Roger Galloway
|
| 20 |
Forestry and Wildlife |
Jordan Lumber Co., The Fork (hunting preserve and horse farm), Pine tree and pine straw farm |
Randy Wood
Richard Melton
|
| 21 |
J.C. Raulston Arboretum, industry and nursery tour |
Tour will visit Plant Delights Nursery, the Bayer CropScience research farm in Clayton, and the J.C. Raulston Arboretum at NCSU. |
Gary Pierce
Shawn Banks
|
| 22 |
Appalachian Agriculture |
Brushy Mountain Bee Farm, What Fir Tree Farm, Mortez’s Mountain Orchard |
Meghan Baker
Callie Birdsell
|
| 23 |
Chatham & Randolph Counties livestock |
Rising Meadows Farm (comercial sheep operation of exoctic breeds), New Hope Farms (beef operation), Siler City Stockyards (lunch), Len Andrews Farms |
Sam Groce
Barry Foushee
|
| 24 |
Gardens of Greensboro (½ day tour) |
Cam Too Camellia Nursery, New Garden Landscape and Nursery, and the Legacy Demonstration Garden (Guilford County Extension office) |
Karen Neil |
| 25 |
Horses, Horses, and more horses |
MacNair's Country Acres, full service equestrian facility, Cool Breeze Stables, breed, born and train race horses, Double D Equestrian Center, and Historic Wakefield Plantation Horse Farm. |
Tyrone Fisher |
| 26 |
Yadkin Valley Wines |
Childress Vineyards and Winery, RayLen Vineyards, Hanover Park Vineyards, RCR racing musuem |
Amy Lynn Albertson |
| 27 |
Davie County Agricultural Variety Tour |
Wayne Cleary Farm (flue-cured and burley tobacco producer), David Tift (boer goats); Thoroughbred Training Center (lunch); Jones Nursery (perennial nursery), Holden Garden (production of daylililes, iris, etc) |
Phil Rucker
Greg Hoover Colleen Sparks
|
| 28 |
Foothills Nursery, Tree Fruit and Winery Tour (Alexander County) |
Daddy Pete’s Dairy Farm & Compost operation, Greengo Orchards, Deal Apple Orchard, Raffaldini Vineyard |
Lenny Rogers
Bill Hanlin
|
| 29 |
Allgehany County, Blue Ridge Mountains |
Smokey Holler Tree Farm (wholesale, chose and cut, provided White House tree in 2005), Blue Ridge Parkway, Bottomly Evergreens and Farms (large supplier of Christmas greenery). |
David Isner |
| 30 |
Landscape Gardening/Nursery Tour |
Piedmont Carolina Nursery, Piedmont Farmers Market, Master Gardners Demo Gardens at Forsyth County Ag Building, Tanglewood Park Arboretum and LA Reynolds Garden Showcase |
Toby Bost |
| 31 |
Back In Time |
Biotechnology Research Center in Kannapolis, Cannon Village Vistors Center (textile display), Reed Gold Mine, Morrow Mountian (Restored Doctors office, historical musuem, moutain vista) |
David Goforth
Carl Pless
|
| 32 |
Mecklenburg/ Gaston County |
Carolina Panther's Stadium (lunch in private suite), Metrolina Greenhouses, Stowe Botanical Garden |
Jim Monroe
Mark Blevins
|
| 33 |
Tobacco and Racing |
Lowes Motor Speedway, Roush Racing, PM USA Cigarette manufacturing plant, one more stop on way to Winston Salem |
Norman Harrell
Scott Shoulars, Roger Cobb
|
| 34 |
Center for Enivornmental Farming Systems (CEFS) |
NCSU and NC A&T State University established CEFS with the NCDA at the Cherry Farm facility near Goldsboro. SARE funded tour |
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