Build a Website for Your Farm

Build a Website for Your Farm

Although there is a popular misconception that Facebook can replace your small business website, there are several key drawbacks.  One is you cannot control your brand on Facebook and your visitors will never have a complete brand experience there as they could have on your own website. A website works as your main resource on all things about your farm providing much more detailed information that is not able to be shared on the social media platform

A Heart Full of Grateful...

A Heart Full of Grateful...

This morning' I got up at 6:01

I walked out and saw the rising sun

And I drank it in like whiskey

I saw a tree I've seen a thousand times

A bird on a branch and I watched it fly away in the wind

And it hit me

It's a beautiful world sometimes I don't see so clear

Where Tourism and Agriculture Collide

Where Tourism and Agriculture Collide

As farms across NC continue to transition from tobacco, the NC Department of Agriculture is working to assist in exploring ways to generate revenue on farms in less traditional ways.  Annie Baggett, Agritourism Marketing Specialist, has been working with communities to make this happen

So, God Made a Farmer...

So, God Made a Farmer...

And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise, and said, ‘I need a caretaker.’ So, God made a farmer.”

You may remember this famous Paul Harvey narrative from a previous Super Bowl ad. This was actually an excerpt from a speech (actual author is unknown) Mr. Harvey gave in 1978 at the national FFA convention where he went on to describe the characteristics of a person that God wants as a farmer.

38th Annual Hoedown Festival

38th Annual  Hoedown Festival

So now is the perfect time for the annual festival to be reignited as a new life in the County is evident. Replacing the ‘ho hum’ of the hoedown, is a new excitement across the county as many community members are involved in planning the event to get the ‘low down’ on the hoedown! As the county slogan reads, we do want to ‘Preserve the Past’ by paying homage to the traditional tobacco growing, curing and marketing but we also plan to ‘Embrace the Future’ as the community begins to embrace more of the various ag endeavors that are a part of farming in Caswell.