Posted on 21 November 2009.
Davidson Farmers Market shoppers make a purchase Saturday during one of a series of holiday markets at the site downtown next to Town Hall. Two more holiday markets are planned Dec. 5 and 19. (Bill Giduz photo)
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Posted on 19 November 2009.
Owners Tommy and Anna Barbee with Brent Barbee, right, the farm manager. (Barbee Farms photo)
By ALEX GREGOR
DavidsonNews.net
N.C. Department of Transportation officials decided Wednesday not to move forward with a proposed realignment of Pitt School Road near Concord. The NC DOT’s original plan would have cut through Barbee Farms, a family run farm that supplies fresh produce for area farmers’ markets and businesses.
DOT official: Learning “what the farm means to the community” made the difference.
Posted in Beyond Davidson, Environment, Living with Growth, local foodComments Off on DOT changes plan, decides not to split Barbee Farms
Posted on 13 November 2009.
Tokens are part of a new payment system Davidson Farmers Market. (David Boraks photo)
By ALEX GREGOR
DavidsonNews.net
The Davidson Farmer’s Market is making it easier to pay for fresh food. A new electronic card reader allows patrons to pay with credit and debit cards. Customers can also redeem government benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) of the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service using electronic benefits transfer (EBT) cards.
The market’s 2009 regular season is over. It will be back next Saturday, Nov. 21, for the next in a planned series of holiday markets. It will open slightly later than its regular season hours – 9 a.m. – and run through noon, in its location next to Town Hall. Read the full story
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Posted on 21 October 2009.
Davidson Farmers Market plans winter markets again this year. (David Boraks photo)
Davidson Farmers Market ends its weekly run for the season Oct. 31, but local food lovers fear not: Again this year, local produce and meats will be available through the fall and winter months, at fall/holiday markets in November and December and biweekly “tailgate” markets this winter.
The winter markets are aimed at meeting demand, from both farmers and consumers, market manager Mary Jane Leach told DavidsonNews.net. Some farmers who traditionally have taken the winter off now see an opportunity in year-round farming. “Our farmers who are growing for the winter need to sell, and we need to eat,” Ms. Leach said. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 October 2009.
By ALEX GREGOR
DavidsonNews.net
The owners of Barbee Farms in Cabarrus County say they’re “cautiously optimistic” that a big turnout by supporters at a public hearing Thursday will convince the North Carolina Department of Transportation to reconsider plans for a road through the six-generation family farm. Read the full story
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Posted on 30 September 2009.
Owners Tommy (top) and Anna Barbee with farm manager Brent Barbee, whose home could be lost. (Barbee Farms photo)
By ALEX GREGOR
DavidsonNews.net
Just over two weeks ago, Cabarrus County farmers Tommy and Anna Barbee received a letter from the N.C. Department of Transportation announcing a public hearing on Thursday, Oct. 1. It mentioned a project to widen I-85 to an eight-lane highway, connecting I-485 in Charlotte with NC 73 near Poplar Tent in Cabarrus County.
Mr. Barbee had learned of the project more than a year ago when an earlier public hearing gave landowners the chance to speak with project engineers from NCDOT. But this letter was his first notice that the DOT plans are calling for Pitts School Road, which currently runs close to his farm, to be re-routed straight through his land. Read the full story
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Posted on 29 September 2009.
Tommy Barbee of Barbee Farms at Davidson Farmers Market.
As our region plans for more growth, a conflict is emerging between the need for infrastructure to support development and growing desires to preserve open space and protect family farms.
Battles are underway in at least two locations this fall – Barbee Farms in Cabarrus County, where a road project could split the farm in two, and the Alexander farm, off Presbyterian Road in Mount Mourne, where a Mooresville sewer project is planned across the property. Read the full story
Posted in Environment, Living with Growth, local food, Neighborhoods, Planning & Development, Public worksComments Off on Family farms face threats from infrastructure projects
Posted on 20 September 2009.
Families wait for the hayride to start at China Grove's Wild Turkey Farms. See more photos in a slide show below; click photo. (Alex Gregor photo)
By ALEX GREGOR
DavidsonNews.net
About 500 people piled into cars, vans and even a few church buses Saturday afternoon to visit nine area farms on a tour organized by Know Your Farms LLC, a Davidson local-food buying club. The ticketed, self-guided tour included farms in Mecklenburg and six surrounding counties: Gaston, Lincoln, Catawba, Iredell, Rowan, and Cabarrus. Read the full story
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