No two farms on the farm tour are the same. Some have covered wagon tours, and others have u-pick strawberries, baby goats, or demonstrations. Some have farm-fresh ingredients you can buy to take home for dinner, and others have seedlings for your own garden. Some can teach you about pasture-based livestock systems, and at others you can learn about high tunnel production, native plants, or mushroom growing.

Below is a list of edible and enjoyable things you may find at many of the farms on the tour this year.

If you’re hungry for further detail, view our map for driving directions and descriptions of all the fun things to do at each farm! 

Buy seedlings for the garden?

At least fourteen farms will have plants for sale:

  • Bountiful Acre (perennial plants, fruit trees, and berry bushes)
  • Catawba Trail Farm (vegetables, houseplants, and landscaping plants)
  • Cedar Grove Blueberry Farm
  • Elodie Farms (vegetables, herbs, and native perennials
  • Ever Laughter Farm & Nursery (native perennials)
  • Faithfull Farms (vegetables)
  • Full Plate Farm (vegetables)
  • Granite Springs Farm (ginger, and vegetables)
  • In Good Heart Farm (vegetables)
  • One Soil Farm (tomatoes and parsley)
  • Open Door Farm (herbs and dahlia tubers)
  • PlowGirl (grow-your-own ginger pots)
  • Rocky Run Farm (vegetables and herbs)
  • WildSide Farm (vegetables)
  • Wolfberry Hawthorn Farm (vegetables, culinary & medicinal herbs, and native plants)

Want more? Read about the farms and map them out.

Buy meat?

  • Beef – Little Way Farm, Fickle Creek Farm, Minka Farm, Bull City Farm
  • Bison – Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm
  • Poultry – Little Way Farm, Fickle Creek Farm, Rocky Run Farm
  • Lamb – Fickle Creek Farm, Stoney Mountain Farm, Bull City Farm, Rocky Run Farm
  • Pork – Little Way Farm, Fickle Creek Farm, Minka Farm, Bull City Farm

Purchase or get some other fun things?

  • Grow-your-own mushrooms – Haw River Mushrooms, PlowGirl Farm, and Granite Springs will have mushroom logs and grow kits.
  • Eggs – Little Way Farm, Fickle Creek Farm, Minka Farm, Catawba Trail Farm
  • Dog Treats – Bull City Farm
  • Flowers – Wolfberry Hawthorn Farm, WildSide Farm, Rocky Run Farm, Benevolence Farm, Bountiful Acre
  • Fiber – Stoney Mountain Farm will have an assortment of wool products
  • Herbal Products – Benevolence Farm, In Good Heart Farm
  • Honey – Little Way Farm, Sankofa Farm
  • Crafts – Stoney Mountain Farm will have felting kits, Fireside Farm & Sawmill will have unique lumber and raised garden bed kits, and Wolfberry Hawthorn Farm will have gourd birdhouses
  • Dairy – Elodie Farms will have goat milk (and dairy-free) ice cream, Boxcarr Farms will have an assortment of cow’s milk and goat’s milk cheeses, Haw River Mushrooms will offer soft-serve cow’s milk ice cream from Ran-Lew Dairy, Little Way Farm will have cream-top dairy.
  • Produce – Granite Springs Farm, Faithfull Farms, PlowGirl Farm, WildSide Farm, Fickle Creek Farm, Minka Farm, Rocky Run Farm, The Farm at Common Ground EcoVillage, Sankofa Farms, Catawba Trail Farm, Screech Owl Greenhouses, One Soil Farm, In Good Heart Farm, Full Plate Farm, Ever Laughter Farm and Nursery, Chatham Oaks Farm, Cedar Grove Blueberry Farm,
  • Farm Merch – Haw River Mushrooms, One Soil Farm, Fireside Farm & Sawmill

Get food and beverages?

  • Snacks – Stoney Mountain Farm will have drinks and snacks available for purchase.
  • Bison Burgers – Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm will be offering a buffalo/bison lunch (Saturday only, 11:30 am – 3 pm).
  • Mushroom “Crab Cakes” – Haw River Mushrooms will have the farm’s signature mushroom “crab cakes” made with lion’s mane mushrooms!
  • Farm-Fresh Meals – Minka Farm will have Burrito Bistro featuring ground beef from their farm.
  • Food Truck – Little Way Farm will host Handcrafted from 12-2 pm on Sunday. Handcrafted will serve beef brisket, pulled pork, Manganero Beer pork hot dogs, and Halfsmoke beef/pork hot dogs—all with meat provided by Little Way Farms animals.
  • Cheese – Boxcarr Farms will have hard and soft cheeses made from cow’s and goat’s milk.
  • Ice Cream – Elodie Farms will have goat’s milk ice cream, Haw River Mushrooms will offer soft-serve ice cream from Ran-Lew Dairy.
  • Cider + Pizza – Cedar Grove Blueberry Farm will have beverages from their on-site cidery, Botanist + Barrel, and serving wood-fired pizza made with only locally-sourced ingredients!
  • Brews – PlowGirl Farm is home to Dingo Dog Brewery, a zero-waste nonprofit craft brewery.

See farm animals?

  • Chicken, Ducks, Geese, or Turkeys – Benevolence Farm, Little Way Farm, Fickle Creek Farm, Rocky Run Farm, Bull City Farm, Catawba Trail Farm, Wolfberry Hawthorn Farm, Minka Farm, Boxcarr Farms, Bountiful Acre, Full Plate Farm, In Good Heart Farm, 
  • Bison/Buffalo – Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm – take a covered wagon ride through rolling pastures where the buffalo roam!
  • Pigs – Minka Farm, Little Way Farm, Fickle Creek Farm, Bull City Farm
  • Sheep – Fickle Creek Farm, Stoney Mountain Farm, Bull City Farm, Rocky Run Farm
  • Honeybees – Sankofa Farm, Catawba Trail Farm, Little Way Farm, PlowGirl Farm
  • Cows – Little Way Farm, Fickle Creek Farm, Minka Farm, Bull City Farm 
  • Goats – PlowGirl Farm, Haw River Mushrooms, Elodie Farms, Chatham Oaks Farm, Boxcarr Farms, Minka Farm
  • Worms – Granite Springs Farm will show off their large red wiggler worm habitat
  • Horses – Minka Farm, Bull City Farm

Learn about sustainable farming?

  • Pastured livestock systems: Bull City Farm, Elodie Farms, Fickle Creek Farm, Little Way Farm, Minka Farm, Rocky Run Farm, Stoney Mountain Farm, Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farms, The Farm at Common Ground Ecovillage
  • Beekeeping: Sankofa Farms
  • Homesteading: Bountiful Acre,
  • Native plants: Ever Laughter Farm & Nursery,
  • Orchards & Perennial gardens: Bountiful Acre, Catawba Trail Farm, Cedar Grove Blueberry Farm, Ever Laughter Farm & Nursery, Full Plate Farm, Minka Farm, Rocky Run Farm, The Farm at Common Ground Ecovillage, WildSide Farm, Wolfberry Hawthorn Farm
  • High tunnels & Greenhouses: Catawba Trail Farm, Ever Laughter Farm & Nursery, In Good Heart Farm, Granite Springs Farm, Rocky Run Farm, Sankofa Farms, Screech Owl Greenhouses, WildSide Farm, Wolfberry Hawthorn Farm
  • Organic practices: In Good Heart Farm, One Soil Farm, Open Door Farm, PlowGirl Farm, Screech Owl Greenhouses
  • No-till growing: Faithfull Farms, Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farms
  • Herbs & Flowers: Benevolence Farm, Open Door Farm, Rocky Run Farm, The Farm at Common Ground Ecovillage, Wolfberry Hawthorn Farm
  • Sustainable Lumber: Fireside Farm & Sawmill

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