Source: BLADEN JOURNAL, 3/31/22


Ralph Carter grew up in blueberry fields in Bladen County, learning the ins and outs of the family business his parents started in the early 1950s. Now 59, he continues to run Carter Farms near Elizabethtown, where he sways to the whims of weather to grow more than 400 acres of blueberries each year. Carter said he hasn’t decided what will become of the farm if he retires. His only child left Bladen to attend Campbell University and now works in clinical research. “There aren’t a lot of young people in the farming industry, period – not just blueberries,” Carter said.

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