Source: DUKE TODAY, 8/3/18

The group traveled last month from Raleigh to farms in Shannon, Maxton, Rowland, Elizabethtown, Currie, Ivanhoe, Kenansville, Mt. Olive, Clinton, and Princeton. Farmers talked about their challenges, introduced their families, and their shared stories and experiences. In addition to the Wooten and his travel team, Brownell and the WFPC staff met Farm Bureau officers in Lumberton and Kenansville. “To understand food systems, one needs to begin where the food is created. So meeting the farmers and seeing the farms was incredibly instructive. Since I’ve been back, I can’t stop telling people about the experience,” Brownell said. “I have so many vivid recollections: how complex farming is, how talented farmers are, how much risk and uncertainty they face, how hard they work, how deeply embedded the farms are in families, and how nice the people are. It is has been a long time since I learned so much in two days. I could not have hoped for anything more.” …

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