Source: ROBESONIAN, 6/1/21

Ellery Locklear started selling watermelons in high school. He got an old tractor running and used an acre of his family’s land to create a business for himself — hawking the summer fruits from the back of his pickup truck. Since then, Locklear, now 41, has grown his Pembroke farming business to 100 acres and six greenhouses. He still grows watermelons — strawberries provide his biggest profit now — and he produces a variety of other crops like tomatoes and sweet corn with the help of three year-round employees, as well as seasonal workers.

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