Farm workers harvest the last of this year’s organic tobacco crop at Whitaker Farms in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
(Photographs copyright 2013 by Dan Routh)
Stripping Tobacco
Category: Tobacco
Curing Tobacco
Neighbor Richard Whitaker pauses from loading his curing barns on his farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
(Photographs copyright 2013 by Dan Routh)
Working in Tobacco
(Photograph copyright 2013 by Dan Routh)
Gary McMasters hauls a load of burley tobacco to his barn in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
Planting Tobacco
Farmer Wade Foust plants tobacco on his farm near Melanchthon, North Carolina.
(Photographs copyright 2013 by Dan Routh)
Carrying Tobacco
(Photograph copyright 2012 by Dan Routh)
Tobacco worker. Randolph County, North Carolina.
Priming Tobacco
Tobacco workers harvest organic tobacco for Whitaker Farms in Randolph County, North Carolina.
(Photographs copyright 2012 by Dan Routh)
Grandpa’s Tobacco Barn
(Photograph copyright 2012 by Dan Routh)
Old tobacco barn on our farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
Pot Belly Stove
(Photograph copyright 2011 by Dan Routh)
An old pot belly wood stove stands beside a pile of tobacco sticks in my Grandfather’s old pack house.
Pack House Chair
(Photograph copyright 2011 by Dan Routh)
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.
Tobacco Pack House
(Photograph copyright 2011 by Dan Routh)
Tobacco pack house, Durham County, North Carolina.
