Alternative Value-Added Cash Crops for North Piedmont District Tobacco Farmers -- The Golden LEAF Foundation and the NC A&T School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences

Contact	Dr. Keith Baldwin, 336-334-7956, kbaldwin@ncat.edu
Grant Amount	$250,000.00
Project Description	The purpose of this grant is to train farmers to grow and market organic medicinal herbs, to form a North Piedmont Herb Growers Association, and to assist farmers with goat-meat production.
Service Area	Franklin County, Forsyth County, Durham County, Caswell County, Alamance County

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Golden LEAF cooperator Stanley Hughes lays black plastic and drip irrigation in Orange County. Stanley is diversifying into vegetables from tobacco.	Peaches planted in cereal rye cover crop	Golden LEAF cooperator Wesley Blalock and Operation Spring Plant partner Philip Barker set up mulch layer for tomatoes. Wesley is a tobacco grower who is trying tomatoes on black plastic this year.
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