Goal: To demonstrate small-scale sustainable production methods and provide hands-on learning opportunities, to grow interest and capacity in small and medium-sized farms.
The farm features cover crop/soil building demonstrations, high tunnel construction and production, blueberry, blackberry, and muscadine grape production, fruit trees, raised bed intensive planting, and a pollinator garden.
Initial work…with a little help from our friends!
Spraying to kill the grass,
Tilling, and spreading compost, God’s Garden
Sandhills Research Station: cultivation, drilling buckwheat
Activities on the demo farm
Caterpillar tunnel construction at a hands on workshop
Building the caterpillar tunnel a season extension tool
Working together
One workshop participant helping to build the caterpillar tunnel
Cut-and-come again lettuce from the high tunnel
A closer look at the lettuce
After the lettuce was cut and washed
Blow torch used to burn holes into landscape fabric used as a weed management strategy
Preparing to transplant flowers using landscape fabric
