Study in barbed wire from this afternoon.
(Photograph copyright 2011 by Dan Routh)
Barbed Wire
Category: Farm
Turning Ground
Neighbor Bill Walker uses a turning plow to get ground ready for next year’s vegetables on his farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
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Combining Soybeans
Soybeans are harvested this weekend near New Hope in southwestern Randolph County, North Carolina.
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Poke Berries
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A sign of the end of summer and the beginning of Fall, poke berries shine along a fence line on our farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. Poke greens can be eaten by humans when the plant is young, but the berries will become food for the birds.
Pot Belly Stove
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An old pot belly wood stove stands beside a pile of tobacco sticks in my Grandfather’s old pack house.
Dirt and Dust
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Gene Lineberry stirs up soil and a little dust with his disk at the end of my road in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
Llama in the Pasture
The folks at Rising Meadow Farms in Grays Chapel, North Carolina have several llamas with their sheep herd. The llamas produce some wool, but their main responsibility is to protect the sheep from potential predators like coyotes.
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Pack House Chair
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An old chair sits in the tobacco pack house on my Grandfather’s place in Grays Chapel, North Carolina, left from a time when cured tobacco was graded and packed for market.
Goldenrod
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Goldenrod blooms in the back field of our farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
From the Afternoon Walk
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Mature milkweed heads from a walk this afternoon on our farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
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