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Pineywoods is a heritage breed of cattle descended from the first cattle the Spanish brought to the New World. They are browsers as well as grazers and evidently spend about as much time browsing on woody plants and leaves as they do eating pasture grass. Mike Hansen and his wife Sue of Ozark Akerz raise their herd near Coleridge, North Carolina. For more information on their operation, go to their website at https://www.ozarkakerz.com or their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ozark.akerz.

(Photograph copyright 2021 by Dan Routh)

Rising Meadow Farm before the pandemic. Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

(Photograph copyright 2021 by Dan Routh)

(Photograph copyright 2019 by Dan Routh)

Gary McMasters at work at his sawmill. Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

(Photographs copyright 2018 by Dan Routh)

The annual shearing day at Rising Meadow Farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina will be tomorrow, Saturday 24, 2018 and is open to the public. For info, go to their web page at http://www.risingmeadow.com/special_events.html.

(Photograph copyright 2017 by Dan Routh)

Wayne Hussey takes a break from his mules. Near Seagrove, North Carolina.

(Photograph copyright 2016 by Dan Routh)

Grays Chapel, North Carolina.