Source: BURLINGTON TIMES NEWS, 1/7/18

Imagine a sustainable farm that offers programs for veterans, the homeless and felons, classes on agriculture, cheesemaking, canning, animal care, and an overnight farm experience. Allison Barnes has been envisioning this Utopia for the last several years, and has a chance to make it a reality now that Lanigan Farm at 1000 Radnor Farm Road, in her hometown of Mebane, has come up for sale. “It’s just a very natural, peaceful way to exist,” she said. Barnes grew up working on her great-grandparents’ farm in the 1980s. Her passion for sustainable farming was reawakened when she began working on a close friend’s farm in Reidsville about three years ago, and now she’s ready to get out on her own. …

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