This year’s tour features free classes on backyard chickens, edible landscaping, and growing organic veggies.

The 7th Annual Eastern Triangle Farm Tour Highlights of the tour include: urban community gardens; a goat cheese dairy; lots of friendly baby animals; fields of gorgeous late-summer, organic vegetables; fun activities for children; mushrooms; bee hives; hayrides; chicken tractors; and so much more!

The tour is Sept. 15-16, 2012 from 1:00-5:00 PM. This year’s tour features 23 sustainable farms in Durham, Wake, Chatham, Franklin, Granville and Person counties. The tour is self-guided. Choose the farms you want to visit on the interactive map at www.carolinafarmstewards.org/etft to plan your adventure. Visit any farm in any order. Don't forget to take a cooler so that you can bring home some of the farm fresh products for sale at many farms! No pets allowed. The tour is rain or shine.

Tour tickets, which allow you to tour all the farms on both days, are $25 per vehicle or cycle group in advance and $30 on the tour weekend. Or, you can choose to pay $10 per farm (available for purchase at all of the farms during the tour). Tickets can be purchased online now at www.carolinafarmstewards.org/etft or at any Triangle Whole Foods Market or at Harmony Farms Natural Foods.

Farm and Garden Workshops on the Tour: - Bob Davis on raising chickens in the city at the Inter-faith Food Shuttle Tryon Road Farm on Saturday at 1:30 - Bountiful Backyards staff on edible landscaping at Homegrown City Farm on Saturday at 1:30 - Frank Hyman on fall veggie gardening at SEEDS on Sunday at 1:30

Farms on the Tour

1. SEEDS Educational Garden, Durham, NC

2. Homegrown City Farms (NEW!) Durham, NC

3. Architectural Trees, Bahama, NC

4. Bull City Farm (NEW!) Rougemont, NC

5. Prodigal Farm, Rougemont, NC

6. Hundred Acre Wood Farm & Sanctuary, Rougemont, NC

7. Son Rise Farm (NEW!) Creedmoor, NC

8. Homestead Harvest Farm, Wake Forest, NC

9. Turtle Mist Farm, Franklinton, NC

10. Betsey’s Bees (SUN. ONLY) Franklinton, NC

11. Melvin’s Gardens Herb Farm, Rocky Ford, NC

12. Mae Farm, Louisburg, NC

13. Lucky 3 Farm, Louisburg, NC

14. Meadow Lane Farm, Louisburg, NC

15. Ray Family Farms, Louisburg, NC

16. Vollmer Farm, Bunn, NC

17. Rare Earth Farms, Bunn, NC

18. Raleigh City Farm (NEW!) Raleigh, NC

19. Inter-Faith Food Shuttle Farm, Raleigh, NC

20. Spain Farm (SAT. ONLY) Raleigh, NC

21. Hilltop Farm, Willow Springs, NC

22. Covenant Community Garden, Fuquay-Varina, NC

23. Edible Earthscapes, Moncure, NC

Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA) is a 33-year-old

non-profit with over 2,300 members that advocates for fair farm and food

policies, builds the systems family farms need to thrive, and educates

communities about local, organic farming. Our vision is the creation of a

regional food system in the Carolinas that is good for consumers, good

for farmers and farmworkers, and good for the land. To learn more, visit

www.carolinafarmstewards.org. The tour is co-sponsored by CFSA and

Whole Foods Market. Proceeds benefit the work of the Carolina Farm

Stewardship Association.