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Tommy Barbee, fifth-generation owner of T.&A. Barbee Family Farm located in Concord, North Carolina, discusses the changes he has witnessed in farming over the course[...]
2019-03-05 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Kate Brun, founder, owner, and operator of Lucky Leaf Gardens, (LLG), in Harrisburg, North Carolina, discusses the greenhouse farming of microgreens, and the past, curren[...]
2019-04-04 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Dr. Kim Buch, a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), discusses how she helped to found the Jamil Niner Student Pantry[...]
2019-04-4 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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History master's student Rebecca Byrd discusses her involvement with the Student Community Garden at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte). Ms. By[...]
2019-03-20 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Doug Carrigan is the fourth generation owner of Carrigan Farms in Mooresville, North Carolina. His family has been farming the land in Mooresville since 1902. Doug discus[...]
2019-03-27 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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In this interview, Lucy Bush Carter, the Executive Director of Friendship Trays in Charlotte, North Carolina, discusses the history of the organization, its evolution, an[...]
2019-03-6 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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David Correll, a farmer from Cleveland, North Carolina, recounts his family farm's history dating back to the late nineteenth century, and discusses how the farm has chan[...]
2019-03-29 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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At the time of the interview Carie Deneau had worked at Tega Hills Farm in York County, South Carolina, for a little over five years. Her primary duties included product [...]
2019-04-10 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Elizabeth Anne Dover is a lifetime resident of Concord, North Carolina. Ms. Dover received a degree in medieval Spanish from Davidson College before settling on a career [...]
Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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In this interview Shelley Proffitt Eagan discusses her work as an owner/operator of a cattle company for the previous ten years in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Topics [...]
2019-04-26 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Anson Eaves, owner and operator of Bethel Feed & Farm in Midland, North Carolina, discusses the past, current, and future operations of the feed mill, a third generat[...]
2019-03-28 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Ronald Edwards, the general manager of Springs Farm in Fort Mill, South Carolina, reflects on the history of the farm and his personal farming experiences. Mr. Edwards di[...]
2019-03-11 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Audra Ellis, co-owner of Ellis Farms in Lincolnton, North Carolina, discusses how she and her husband, Rick, originally started with six chickens and two pygmy goats, exp[...]
2019-05-8 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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In this interview, livestock farmer James Ferebee discusses the animals he raises and the rotational grazing methods he employs on his farm in Rock Hill, South Carolina. [...]
2019-03-19 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Chris Fletcher discusses his time working on his farm, Green Meadows Acres, in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. He explains the reasons he began farming, what he current[...]
2019-04-16 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Nadine Ford grew up in the Druid Hills neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina. Her love for growing things began in her early childhood when she lived on a farm and le[...]
2019-04-18 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Amy Foster discusses her twelve years as a livestock farmer and co-owner of Gilcrest Natural Farm in Iron Station, North Carolina. Mrs. Foster describes how her desire to[...]
2019-04-24 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Mendy Godman, Sue Hawes, and Kim Aprill began the Charlotte, North Carolina, chapter of Food Connection in September 2018. In this interview, they describe how they met,[...]
2019-03-27 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Lara Hall, co-owner of Hall Family Farms in Charlotte, North Carolina, describes the history of the farm dating back to the 1920s. The farm originally grew cotton and lea[...]
Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Native Charlottean Ricky Hall has lived in West Charlotte for his entire life, where he has become an important member of numerous neighborhood coalitions and organizatio[...]
2019-04-16 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Emma Hendel discusses her five years as a microgreens farmer and co-owner of Fair Share Farms, LLC in Pfafftown, North Carolina. Mrs. Hendel describes why and how she and[...]
2019-04-20 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Chantel Johnson, owner of Off the Grid in Color farm in Salisbury, North Carolina, recounts how she first entered agriculture and homesteading in 2016 as a way of healing[...]
2019-04-3 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Cindy McKenzie and Robert Suydam, leaders of the Avondale Community Giving Garden on the campus of the Avondale Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, discuss [...]
2019-03-25 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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In this interview, T. McLeod talks about his experiences in running his organics business, McLeod Organics, in north Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and his transitio[...]
2019-03-12 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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Connor Newman and Kim Hodges Schoch of Hodges Family Farm in Charlotte, North Carolina, discuss the past, current, and future operations of the farm. The interview, condu[...]
2019-03-12 | Audio | The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed |
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The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed explores the rewards and challenges of those who have currently and historically participated in and helped to create the North Carolina Piedmont region's foodshed. By documenting the oral histories of farmers, gardeners, ranchers, gleaners, and individuals contributing to other food distribution efforts, the project was designed to portray the sometimes unexpected and creative ways that local food production and distribution have occurred and changed over time. Interviews include seventeen farmers, nine livestock producers, four community gardeners, a beekeeper, a feed mill operator, and six community activists involved in food re/distribution. Graduate students in Dr. Karen Flint's Oral History and Memory class at UNC Charlotte conducted the interviews in the spring of 2019.