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Welcome Home Littles: Building Dreams with CFFC When Janet and Denton Little pulled up to a piece of land in Southeastern North Carolina, they knew it was exactly what they had been looking for and was perfect for their future home. However, buying land was something the Little family had...

Part 2 - Farm, Family & Finances: Exclude or Include Family in Farm Business? How to Not Burn Bridges In part 2 of our Farm, Family, and Finances series, Jolene Brown is tackling the tough subject of whether or not to exclude family in business matters, and if you do...

Part 3- Farm, Family & Finances: A Fresh Perspective on Wills Our third part in our Farm, Family and Finances series deals with hurt feelings over wills. How do we deal with our own potentially hurt feelings from the desires of a will? How do we mend other’s hurt feelings...

Part 1 Farm, Family & Finances: Making Annual Family Business Meetings Successful Farm, Family, & Finances is a series inspired and derived from our expert speakers from our Women in Ag event. While the event was for women, the advice in this blog series is for the entire family. We’ll...

Rows of white high-tunnels stand against the horizon. They are filled with vines bearing cucumbers, plants laden with tomatoes, and other various vegetables. Welcome to Pretty Boy Farms. Billy Augustine grew up in Hammonton, NJ, the blueberry capital of the world. His father started farming blueberries there about 35 years...

Relationships and people are at the heart of what we do. We genuinely love building relationships with our customers and community. However, because of COVID-19, we have not been able to visit our customers as often as we like, and honestly, we miss that. We did the next best thing...

Every day since mid-May, a large cadre of folks across the state have been working together to deliver fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, and dairy products to those in need. It is part of the USDA Farmers to Families Food Box program that was put in place as part of...

When it comes to considering your farm’s assets, what often makes the list are items such as the number of cattle, acres of tilled land, bushels of stored grain, number of swine or poultry houses, and equipment. All items are important but what is missing from this list of assets...

Summertime is just around the corner, and with that comes melon season! There’s nothing quite like a cold, juicy watermelon or cantaloupe on a warm summer day. Currently, farmers are planting watermelon and cantaloupe. While we’re waiting for them to grow, let’s learn more about these delicious fruits (or are...