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Desire to see the xx farms participating in the 2022 Piedmont Farm Tour?

In that location's an incredible blend of farmers who produce nutrient, flowers, and fibers that are situated across seven counties of the Piedmont region in North Carolina.

Accept a sneak peek at the four new farms!

Depending on your preference, in that location are plenty of means to learn more most these farms and what you lot can expect to run into on your visit.

Scroll on and read the descriptions and apply the map. Also bank check out our Tips & Tools for Taking the Piedmont Subcontract Tour.

Map key:

• Colors: Different colors betoken different regions that we've broken the bout into (N, South, Fundamental, and East). Brown icons and the Weaver Street Market logo indicate where yous can buy a farm tour pass in person.

• Stars: Starred farms are kick-off farms that open at noon instead of 2 p.m.

• Xs: Betoken farms that are no longer on the tour because of avian flu.

Without further ado, here'southward the subcontract tour lineup for 2022:

• • • Black Tulip Alpaca Farm | Siler Metropolis
    • Braeburn Subcontract | Snow Camp
    • Cedar Grove Blueberry Farm with Windy Hill Farm | Cedar Grove
    • Chapel Colina Creamery | Chapel Hill
    • Copeland Springs Farm | Pittsboro
    • Faithfull Farms | Chapel Colina
    • Practiced Promise Subcontract | Cary
    • Granite Springs Farm | Pittsboro
    • Haw River Mushrooms + Minka Farm | Saxapahaw
    • Honey Bee Hills Subcontract | Prospect Colina
    • NC Land Agricultural ecology Farm | Raleigh
    • Nourishing Acres | Cedar Grove
    • Okfuskee Farm | Silk Hope
    • PlowGirl Farm | Chapel Loma
    • Raleigh City Farm | Raleigh
    • Sankofa Farms | Cedar Grove
    • Split Acre Farm + Grass Grazed | Rougemont
    • Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm | Roxboro
    • The Well Fed Community Garden | Raleigh

Black Tulip Alpaca Farm – NEW! | 824 Poplar Trail, Siler City 27344
Take in the stunning views while yous spotter the alpacas peacefully graze, larn about the history of alpacas in North America, and become upward shut with Shadow, the friendliest alpaca y'all'll ever meet! Piedmont Fibershed volition be in attendance with demonstrations in weaving, spinning, and steps in processing raw fleece into yarn.
Boot-Off Farm

Braeburn Farm | 1203 Longest Acres Rd, Snow Army camp 27349
@braeburnfarm
Braeburn Farm is a little more than 500 acres of pastures, woodlands, creeks, ponds, hills, and valleys and operates equally a grass-fed beef operation with all products marketed locally. Our goal is to create incredible beef by creating a healthy ecosystem – one which works for humans, cattle, insects, birds, also as all the critters swimming in our streams and waterways.  We employ the cows to help create that ecosystem through holistic, high-intensity grazing that increases soil wellness and sequesters carbon. Nosotros tin can't wait to show you how cows can be office of the solution to our environmental bug.
Kick-Off Subcontract

Cedar Grove Blueberry Farm | 105 Persimmon Loma Ln, Cedar Grove 27231
@cedargroveblueberry
Enjoy a walk through the Cedar Grove Blueberry Farm'due south certified Organic orchard while learning about our organic fruit farming practices and the farm'south history. After your orchard stroll, head inside to Botanist & Barrel Cidery + Winery for a guided tour and tasting, which features cider and wine fabricated with our fruit. Finish your visit with a hot pizza from our new wood-fired pizza oven, which features only locally-sourced ingredients from our neighborhood of farms – Nourishing Acres, Eden Meats, and Boxcarr Handmade Cheese! Windy Hill Farm will be there selling their handmade goats milk soap!
Kick-Off Farm, Meal/Snack Stop

Chapel Hill Creamery | 615 Chapel Loma Creamery Rd, Chapel Loma 27516
@chapelhillcreamery
Our Creature Welfare Approved cows will be happily grazing, and our pigs volition be joyfully slurping whey. Take a horse and buggy ride to visit the animals, then sample our variety of cheeses. Learn about how milk is transformed into many different types of cheese! We'll have cheese and pork for sale, and we'll have some picnic items for you lot to enjoy while y'all're visiting us.
Boot-Off Farm, Meal/Snack Stop

Copeland Springs Farm & Kitchen | 220 Lorax Ln, Pittsboro 27312
@copeland_springs_farm
We grow a wide diversity of vegetables, flowers, and mushrooms in iii high tunnels and in the field. Nosotros do not till, and we cultivate beneficial insect habitats through cover cropping and pollinator plantings around the farm. We'll have freshly harvested vegetables for sale, as well as establish seedlings to requite your garden a jumpstart! Our on-farm kitchen will exist serving up meals from produce grown on the farm, and we encourage you to explore the surrounding businesses that make upward the Chatham Drinkable District, or take a stroll along the Pittsboro Farm and Forest Trail!
Kick-Off Subcontract, Repast/Snack Finish

Faithfull Farms – NEW! | 1400 Ferguson Rd, Chapel Hill 27516
@faithfullfarms
​​ Faithfull Farms is a small-scale no-till market farm that grows twelvemonth-round produce for local restaurants, grocers, and the Carrboro Farmers Market. Farmer Howard will give a walking tour of the property, or visitors can do a self-guided bout. There will be fresh produce and seedlings for auction. Visitors tin can relax under the pavilion. Bring dejeuner and have a picnic on the backyard.

Expert Hope Subcontract| 1580 Morrisville Carpenter Rd, Cary 27519
@goodhopefarmnc
In its sixth year, Good Hope Farm supports land admission for new and expanding farmers, preserves farmland, and connects the community to healthy, local food. The farm is located at the eye of Carpenter, a thriving agricultural customs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The farm has been in production for over 100 years and many of the buildings on the property date from the early 20th century. Tour our historic farmstead, visit farmer plots, and larn more most our educational opportunities!
Farming businesses at Good Hope Subcontract: Garden-Fresh Farm, Erstwhile North Farm, Natural and Local, Barking Dog Farm, Wild Oats Farm, Nithin's Organic Subcontract, LVS Organic Farm, Blue Ridge Pepper Patch, Rhizal Farm, Samhitham Farm, East2West Farm.
Boot-Off Farm

Granite Springs Farm | 266 Granite Springs Rd, Pittsboro 27312
@gsfpbo
Granite Springs is in our 14th year of producing vegetables and Oyster Mushrooms for the Pittsboro Farmers Market, our Autumn and Winter CSA, and local restaurants. We're working to produce flavorful, nutrient-dense food by enhancing our soil life past experimenting with ethnic microorganism sprays and vermicompost teas. Check out our high tunnels, including tunnel #5 now under construction!

Haw River Mushrooms + Minka Subcontract | 1122 Ossabaw Way, Graham 27253
@hawrivermushrooms + @minkafarm
Be amid the first to see u.s. at our new subcontract location! As we approach our tenth twelvemonth of mushroom growing, nosotros'll share our story of how nosotros've grown our farm from a side-hustle passion to 1 of Northward Carolina's largest mushroom farms. We'll share our growing process, from sawdust to harvest. Plus, no matter what the temps bring on this farm tour, nosotros promise our grow rooms will exist 65 degrees (just yet boiling!). Join us early for a mushroom-tastic lunch on the farm, and Vimala's Curryblossom Cafe will be serving their specialties made with Haw River Mushrooms and Minka Subcontract beef both days!

Minka Subcontract has partnered with Haw River Mushrooms this twelvemonth! To protect their flocks from bird flu, Minka Farm is airtight to visitors but you can visit with their goat kids, Great Pyrenees puppies and enjoy a ride (age 12 and under) on 1 of their two horses at Haw River Mushrooms! They will take produce available plus all of their meats (100% grass-fed beefiness, pastured pork, pastured chicken, pastured lamb, and pastured goat), duck eggs and craven eggs available for purchase (bring a libation!) Feel gratuitous to order ahead of time online at MinkaFarm.com and they'll have it set up for pick up.
Kicking-Off Farm, Meal/Snack Stop

Honey Bee Hills Farm | 531 Henry Warren Rd, Prospect Hill 27314
@honeybeehillsfarm
Honey Bee Hills Subcontract grows certified Organic produce on 15 acres of our 130-acre farm for our CSA members, farmers' markets, grocery stores, and wholesale. One of our most popular crops are our organic strawberries. We make no promises, but we take had the first ripe berries of the yr spotted on the farm tour weekend in the past! Acquire near the equipment we use–including a diverseness of tractors–high tunnels, and tillage, planting, cultivation, and harvesting tools. Explore over two miles of signed hiking trails. Try our candied hot peppers and jams, which we make in our commercial kitchen on-site using our farm-grown produce. Nosotros will also have certified organic plants and produce for sale.

NC State Agroecology Education Farm | 4400 Mid Pines Rd, Raleigh 27606
@ncsu_agroecology_farm
The NC State Agricultural ecology Teaching Farm is a 6-acre farm that provides educational opportunities for students and the community and grows produce for NC Country Dining. Our chief product happens in ii hoop houses and an acre of open up fields. We have a new orchard that has been designed with permaculture principles featuring apples, hand-paws, persimmons, elderberry, acai, and much more! Nosotros have diverse other gardens that support pollinators, herb production, and perennial fruits. Students and staff will pb tours that showcase sustainable practices at our farm and those of the larger NC State community.
Kick-Off Farm

Nourishing Acres | 242 Persimmon Hill Ln, Cedar Grove 27231
@nourishingacres
We are a certified Organic vegetable subcontract, dwelling to a dearest bee apiary, loftier tunnels, and six acres of vegetable fields brimming with organic produce. Nosotros will have enough of certified Organic vegetable and herb plant starts for sale for your gardens, and succulent jump veggies for your kitchens!

Okfuskee Farm |1300 Silk Hope Liberty Rd, Siler City 27344
@okfuskeefarm
Okfuskee Farm is a "systems" approach to farming that demonstrates broad-acre permaculture practices relevant to the area. Starting more often than not every bit market gardeners and pastured hog producers, nosotros take evolved to ranchers of Katahdin sheep, agroforesters, and land stewards of approximately 200 acres throughout northwest Chatham County. At our 20-acre dwelling subcontract, you will see various ages and types of agroforestry systems comprising iv,000+ trees and shrubs planted over the past 14 years. Nosotros are a unique functioning that strives to balance ecosystem role, food production, and quality of life every bit a family.

PlowGirl Farm | 9907 Leta Dr, Chapel Loma, NC 27516 – PARK AT THE KRAKEN BAR
Learn well-nigh shiitake mushroom and ginger production, explore organic vegetable fields, and tour Dingo Canis familiaris Brewery, a zero-waste facility on-site, where you can sample and purchase craft beer and cider brewed with farm-grown ingredients. We'll accept pots of culinary ginger and shiitake mushroom logs for sale, in instance you've ever wanted to grow your own!
PARK AT THE KRAKEN BAR, corner of Hwy 54 and Dodson'south Crossroads. Follow signs and foot path to the farm.

Raleigh Metropolis Farm | 800 N Blount St, Raleigh 27604
@raleighcityfarm
Raleigh City Farm is a non-turn a profit urban farm, connecting the community to regenerative agriculture. Our i-acre site includes a pollinator perimeter, rain gardens, food forest, apiary, main production area, high tunnel, greenhouse, and composting station. Structures include our subcontract stage pavilion, wash and pack station, and a central space where we set up our weekly subcontract stand up. There are besides benches and pathways to sit, stroll, and take information technology all in, and there are several eateries within walking distance!
Raleigh City Farm is located at the intersection of Franklin and Blount Streets; please use on-street parking as the adjacent parking lot is reserved for tenants of the Person Street Plaza.

Sankofa Farms – NEW! | 2916 J A Killough Dr, Cedar Grove 27231
@sankofafarms
Sankofa Farms is centered around solving issues involving food security for African Americans by offering an educational program for students through our agronomics academy. Nosotros besides offer diverse educational opportunities for members in the community, and a program called Bees In The TRAP, which allows participants to develop a unique relationship with honeybees. Visitors will hear the story of Sankofa, get a chance to speak with our ag academy students, tour our apiary, and get a peek in our caterpillar tunnels!

Split Acre Farm + Grass Grazed – NEW! | 8115 New Sharon Church Rd, Rougemont 27572
@splitacrefarm   @grassgrazed
Split Acre is a diversified subcontract that focuses on sustainable produce and cut flowers. Join us for a bout of the subcontract to explore the blossom gardens and high tunnels. Learn most our year-circular production of vegetables and cut flowers. You lot won't desire to miss our farm correspond bouquets, vegetables, and plant starts. We'll see you there!

Grass Grazed is a 60-acre farmstead just downward the road from Split Acre and will be fix up to sell eggs to tourgoers. They are domicile to pastured livestock based on principles of sustainable agriculture and believe in being practiced stewards of land while providing customers and themselves with healthy, wholesome, succulent meat.

Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farms | 465 Yarbrough Rd, Roxboro, NC 27574
Come for a narrated covered wagon bout through our rolling pastures, where you lot'll come across bison cows, calves, and bulls while we discuss bison handling, feeding, and behavior. Learn about the history of the subcontract, which has been designated equally an NC Bicentennial Farm, in performance since 1797! Purchase bison meat to have home, or stay for a bison lunch (Sabbatum only, xi:xxx am – 3 pm).
Kick-Off Farm, Repast/Snack Finish

Well Fed Customs Garden | 1321 Athens Dr, Raleigh, NC 27606
@thewellfedgarden
The Well Fed Community Garden is a no-till urban subcontract that grows produce for our neighbors, local farmers' markets, and nearby restaurants. On the bout, yous will run into our pollinator garden, food forest, production fields, high tunnel, and more! The subcontract also provides a venue for local gardening workshops, art and yoga classes, theater and community activities, every bit well as other agritourism events.

Check out the interactive map (above) for total descriptions of each subcontract and its special offerings!

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