Commercial, Advertising and Editorial Photography. Greensboro, North Carolina
Take several acres of bottom land along the Yadkin River in Caldwell County, North Carolina. Add about 20-25 teams of the most gorgeous mules and work horses you have ever seen along with some serious farmers and it’s amazing how much ground you can turn in just a short time. Images are from a plow day gathering of the North Carolina Draft Horse & Mule Association this past weekend.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Goat Lady Dairy in Grays Chapel, North Carolina started a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) garden this year and yesterday was the first weekly harvest and delivery to members. One of the key personnel involved was gardener Chram (pronounced “Trom”). Chram is a Montagnard originally from Viet Nam who has been training to help run the day to day gardening operations along side farm manager Daniel Woodham.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
I have lived in the Grays Chapel community in North Carolina for some 56 years. When I was very young, many of my neighbors were full time farmers, and most farmed at least part time. Over the years things have changed and fewer folks are involved in agriculture. There are some, however, that still make their livings from the land and I appreciate seeing them hard at work. Here, Michael Williams uses a large “ripper” to prepare land for the upcoming corn crop. The corn will become silage for dairy cows.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Michael Williams feeds his heifers at Williams Dairy in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Whitaker’s Farms, located near my home in Grays Chapel, North Carolina produces a variety of field-grown produce for our local market. They also grow hot house tomatoes to provide fruit before the outdoor crop comes in. Tomatoes have set on and it won’t be long before ripe fruit will be available. Below, James Frazier looks after the coming crop. For more info on Whitaker’s Farms, go to http://www.whitakerfarm.com/homepage.htm.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
A late afternoon last week saw my cousin Thomas Routh planting potatoes on his farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. Thomas and his wife Lula Mae, both in their upper eighties, grow a huge garden from which they sell produce weekly at the local Farmer’s Market in Asheboro.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Spring means renewal and at the Goat Lady Dairy in Grays Chapel, North Carolina it means new kids. For the folks at the dairy, it means those baby goats have to be fed twice a day. Makes for an interesting time in the nursery.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
All it takes is a day or two of warm weather to get the gardeners out working in the dirt. Yesterday the folks at Goat Lady Dairy in Grays Chapel, North Carolina were busy getting onion sets into the ground. Goat Lady has started and will be running a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project this year where a group of approximately 50 families has invested in a large garden from which they will receive weekly shares of organic produce.
Daniel Woodham, CSA Farm Manager.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Neighbor Bobby Bradds loads hog feed at the local mill in Julian, North Carolina. It’s an old style feed mill where farmers can still bring their own grain and have it custom ground. Bobby raises “farm raised” pork for the local Greensboro market. His hogs are allowed to roam in a pasture and not shut up in commercial pens, part of the rising “slow food” movement in our area.
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Photograph of Jersey cow, Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
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