Source: Abbie Bennett, NEWS & OBSERVER, 7/18/16


Vernon Thompson reckons farmers along U.S. 701 south of Four Oaks have been growing and selling peaches for a century.
He hasn’t been at it quite that long, taking up peach growing in 1985 on two acres of family land. Seven years later, he opened a roadside stand at 4301 U.S. 701 South...

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