Exclusively funded by the North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund Commission
Tamara Crain: Crain Family Farm Crain Family Farm Poultry Advancement Grant Award: $3,000 Tamara is expanding the production of layers and broilers at her grandfather’s farm. All of her animals will be raised free-range with no antibiotics and no animal … View >>
Frank & Jeanette Wilson Hominy Valley Farms – Land and Cattle The Loca-Motive: A New Meat Market Opportunity Grant Award: $9,000 The Wilsons are opening a market stand for local meat at the WNC Farmers Market at Asheville. They are … View >>
Quinton Ellison & Kelley Penn: Balltown Bee Farm Rabbitry for Commercial Meat Purposes Grant Award: $6,000 Quinton and Kelley are expanding their current rabbitry into ten does, using New Zealand Whites. This expansion allows them to produce an average of … View >>
David Mackey Beef Freezers Grant Award: $3,000 David and his family are establishing direct sales of their natural and hormone-free beef and pork. They have a relationship with a processing facility that will butcher, wrap and deliver the finished product … View >>
Elizabeth Gibbs, Firefly Farm Heritage Rabbits for Meat and Breeding Stock Grant Award: $6,000 Elizabeth, alongside her partner Scott Paquin, is establishing a heritage rabbit operation, with the construction of an open pole barn to house heritage breed rabbits, hay … View >>
Andrew Jones of Clay County is growing his goat operation by building shelter, constructing fencing and renovating pasture. The land in Fires Creek where he farms has been in his family’s hands for four generations, and now he resides there … View >>
Thomas Miller of Swain County is raising rare heritage breeds of hogs to sell naturally grown pork. He is renovating his barn, fencing and pasture with the grant. The costs involved in construction would have prohibited him from starting the … View >>
Thomas Ruff and his wife Jamie have raised tobacco to support their family and pay for the family farm. This young family is working to transition from the lose of tobacco income by planting vegetables and small fruit trees … View >>
Carl is a full-time farmer who ordinarily raises produce to sell locally, tends bee-hives for honey, and since 1974, still farms burley tobacco. Searching for more stable commodities, Carl used his grant to assist in extensive field renovation and … View >>
Kendy is expanding her farm operation into the sales of Dominique chicken production. Kendy is building a portable pen to raise exhibition and homestead quality birds for hatching eggs, eating eggs, and meat for sale. Expected income totals Grant … View >>