Source: Richard Barron, GREENSBORO NEWS & RECORD, 5/4/21

 Andy Clapp strides toward his humid tobacco greenhouse in the fresh country air as he shows off his family’s generations-old farm just six miles from downtown’s urban congestion. Inside, the bright light shows off the green sprouts that are growing into full-size tobacco plants he’ll plant and harvest later this summer for a handsome profit. Unlike the four generations of farmers that preceded him on hundreds of acres scattered in the area near Clapp Farms Road, Andy Clapp doesn’t put all his effort into tobacco, which has declined along with the nation’s smoking habits.

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