1st Annual Sandhillls Farm Tour

Do you like buying local? Do you enjoy visiting farms? If so be sure to take your family on the 2011 Sandhills Farm Tour! Local farms in Montgomery, Moore and Richmond counties are hosting their first annual farm tour Saturday July 23rd from 3-7 PM. This is a perfect family outing where you can tour the farms, sample great locally grown food, and have a day of excitement!

Each farm has a specialty whether it is with local food or providing outdoor sports. Some of the farms will have cooking demonstrations and family fun activities. If you are interested in attending tickets are only $10.00 per car before July 22nd! Tickets can be purchased from Montgomery Cooperative Extension office or you can purchase tickets at the farm site the day of for $15.00 per car (giving you access to all farms). 

The list of participating

farms:

Clayton Orchard 

289 Research Farm Rd. 

Candor, NC 27229 

Dewitt’s Game Farm & Dewitt’s Outdoor Sports 

443 Jimmy Carriker Rd 

Ellerbe, NC 28338 

Hilltop Angus Farm 

1708 Pee Dee Rd. 

Mt. Gilead, NC 27306

Hope Farms 

117 NC Hwy 731 E 

Mt. Gilead, NC 27306 

Shadow Hill Farm & Kennel 

1723 Belford Church Rd. 

Jackson Springs, NC 27281 

Triple L Farms 

2205 Derby Rd. 

Ellerbe, NC 28338 

Vang Farms 

189 Beaman Rd. 

Troy, NC 27371

For more info or to purchase tickets come by the: 

NC Cooperative Extension 

203 W. Main Street, Troy NC 27371 

(910) 576-6011

Come see us!

speechless sunday

contentment

is doing dishes while looking out the window with this in the view.

wordless wednesday

the beat of a different drum

Our Sandhill Regional library system has a summer program, that we like to take advantage of because 1. it's fun and 2. it's a good excuse to get out of farm chores and 3. the kids love like it.  Best of all, 4., it's FREE.

While we did sign up for the reading prizes, we have been more interested in the shows, below, than keeping track of the books we've read.

While we had lots of company at the beginning of our summer, we didn't attend the first seven few shows, but we did start this week on Monday with the Poetry Slam with Allan Wolf, who rocked the Monday out of the house.

I LOVED HIS PERFORMANCE!  

Then, yesterday was the dead animal hide wildlife pelts display with

Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge and while Janet was great - I think the kids (and, I) would have like to have seen some actual live animals and/or maybe a slide show of the live animals that the pelts represented.

and then,

DRUM ROLL PLEASE.........

THIS woman - Beverly Botsford - was phenomenal!  

I took a few photographs and videos of her performance and thoroughly enjoyed seeing her performance - the boys and girls all around me did too!  I'll put those in another post as soon as I quit procrastinating get time.

So far, this has been the best summer in a long, long while.

Now, I just need my Mom, Sister and Mike, Grandma and Grumpy Grandpa to visit.  It will be like fresh whipped topping on a 2010 strawberry shortcake summer.  

Life Is Delicious! 

dog days

If I wasn't me, I'd want to be one of my dogs.

Because all they do is eat, sleep, play, play and play some more.

CJ, who takes food very, very seriously.  (we have a lot in common, he and I)

They play.  And play.

And play.

And, you guessed it, play.

Playing some more.

I love my dogs.