2011 Cove Creek Farm Heritage Day     

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See links to article references at the end of the article.

September 2011

The Cove Creek Farm Heritage Days festival used to feel like an old-fashioned day to see the way things used to be. But, as the country changes the way it sees the food supply, the festival seems more like a display of cutting-edge farming practices which provide high-quality local food, real food, not processed food sold in boxes.

Does your cornmeal come from Nebraska, raised on a massive single-crop farm which must use increasing amount of soil-destroying pesticides? Or was the corn grown locally, milled in small batches just recently and comes with the advice that it should be stored in the freezer?

You can find local produce, eggs, meat and honey without leaving our county. You know it was raised on a farm by a farmer who must earn his/her reputation for quality foods and maintain the quality of his/her soil for future production, the way it used to be, mostly always has been around here and must be for the future.

Links to references in this article:

• Historic Cove Creek School
• Disabled American Veterans in Watauga County North Carolina
• Mountain Times - Disabled American Veterans
• Sugar Grove Developmental School
• Doc and Merle Watson Folk Art Museum
• Maura Shawn Scanlin and the Forget~Me~Nots