Source: Vicki Hyatt, THE MOUNTAINEER, 8/4/21


At a newly opened custom meat packing business in the Crabtree community, four generations of the Wade family keep the place humming as they provide a vital link in the food chain. The idea for the plant was hatched as both Darren and Karen Wade were contemplating a post-retirement way to keep busy, she from a personnel job at Haywood Community College and he from the N.C. Wildlife Commission. 

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