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Photos From the 2025 Chatham County Ag Fest

The 5th Annual Chatham County Spring Ag Fest on March 29, 2025, was a success with a great crowd and beautiful weather. The Spring Ag Fest is a celebration of Chatham County’s agriculture, forestry,…

Bottle of Fiddlehead Farm Black Garlic Rooster Sauce beside three garlic bulbs on wooden surface

Fiddlehead Farm Wins Another National Good Food Award!

Chatham County's Fiddlehead Farm has won their THIRD national Good Food Award! Earlier this year they won for their Black Garlic Rooster Sauce. In previous years they have won for their Roasted…

Woman with glasses cutting plants with red pruners in a dense garden

Farm Visit Snapshots: Poppysol Farm + Apothecary

Grower Hannah Popish of Poppysol Farm + Apothecary has been cultivating herbs and flowers at her one acre permaculture-inspired farm outside Pittsboro since 2017. A clinical herbalist, Hannah is…

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Farm Visit Snapshots: Grand Hope Farm

Brandon and Elizabeth Szilvay operate Grand Hope Farm in the western part of Chatham County near Siler City, NC. The farm has been in Brandon's family since the early 1800s, and he is the sixth…

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Farm Visit Snapshots: Turtle Rock Gardens

Grower Nicole Rosenberger has been growing beautiful sustainably grown cut flowers at Turtle Rock Gardens in Silk Hope for three years. In early 2019, Nicole moved to North Carolina from Pittsburgh…

Chickens feeding at red feeder in fenced pasture with coop and person nearby

Farm Visit Snapshots: Perry-Winkle Farm

From Chatham County Agriculture Agent Debbie Roos: Farm Visit Snapshots are a new feature on my Growing Small Farms website. A big part of my job as an Agriculture Agent is visiting farms to provide…

Person standing among tall trellised tomato plants in a field under cloudy sky

Farm Visit Snapshots: Heart Song Farm

From Chatham County Agriculture Agent Debbie Roos: Farm Visit Snapshots are a new feature on my Growing Small Farms website. A big part of my job as an Agriculture Agent is visiting farms to provide…

Wheel bug nymphs emerging.

Birth of an Assassin!

The wheel bug, Arilus cristatus, is North Carolina's largest assassin bug. It gets its name from the prominent spiny "wheel" found on the thorax. Both nymphs and adults are generalist predators that…

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Freeze Damage to Local Fruit Crops

The temperature plunged to around 25°F in parts of Chatham and many surrounding counties in the early morning hours of April 6, 2016. Another freeze occurred the morning of April 10 with similar low…

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Chatham County Agribusiness Wins Sustainable Agriculture Award!

A Chatham County business was named Business of the Year in front of a cheering crowd of 800 farmers, gardeners, educators, researchers, and activists at Carolina Farm Stewardship Association’s…