Farms

Bulk and More    
889 Fountaintown Road, Beulaville        910.298.2183   
A family-owned and operated bakery and bulk food products store keeps the dough rising and, even though the facility is small, it accommodates tour bus stops with advanced notice. They stock a variety of candies and sugar-free treats to round out their offerings. Call ahead to find out when the bread comes from the oven on the day you want to visit.

Mikes Farm
1600 Haw Branch Road, Beulaville     910.324.3422 / 888.820.3276
Mikes Farm is open to the general public but its goal is to offer families and groups interested in farm life activities they can enjoy together. These activities include hayrides, Christmas trees, pumpkin picking and a variety of other crop sales. Facilities also accommodate cookouts, birthday parties, and luncheons for groups. Educational school tours can be scheduled in the spring and fall. The visitor operations include a full service bakery, restaurant, farm crop picking and sales, and an animal petting area. A Christmas light show is among the Farms most popular seasonal events, along with group campfire cookouts and hayrides. Accommodations welcome bus tours. www.mikesfarm.com.

Tarkil Branch Farms Homestead Museum 
1198 Fountaintown Road, Beulaville        910.298.3804   
Come touch history at Tarkil Branch Farms Homestead Museum.  The museum features an 1830s dogtrot style house, completely furnished to that period. Nine other vintage farm buildings containing over 850 artifacts from the past and a country store structure (c. 1925) are part of the offerings.  Located on a 375-acre working farm, Tarkil offers visitors a chance to see demonstrations of nineteenth-century farm life, crop production, and food preservation.  abf@intrastar.net.

CHINQUAPIN

In The Red Farmstead Cheese 
2185 Lyman Road, Chinquapin        910.285.8089
The Bingham familys wall of honor includes show ribbons from their goats, and a dairy license for their herd. The cheese and meat products are sold under the name of In The Red Farmstead Cheese. Most of their cheese products are sold in a feta-style consistency. The cheese products are sold mostly off-site in places like state farmers markets, but also include local outlets such as at the gift shop of the Country Squire Restaurant.  Dairy visits and product sales should be scheduled in advance as the Bingham family does not have established business hours at their farm operation.

FAISON

Cottle Farms 
192 Ned Cottle Lane, Faison         910.267.4531
From the first small patch of strawberries planted in 1964, Cottle Farms of Faison feeds much of eastern North Carolina on a steady diet of plump strawberries and then follows the season supplying the public with a variety of other vegetables. Cottle Farms nursery operations grow 14 million strawberry plants that they utilize in their operation or sell to other strawberry growers. When the berries are ripe, Cottle Farms opens its fields in Faison for school field trips.  On the way to the berry patch they get to view some farm animals and a small herd of bison kept just for the enjoyment of students. www.cottlefarms.com.

KENANSVILLE

HomegrownHandmade            919.733.2111
HomegrownHandmade is an alliance between North Carolina arts and agriculture, scouting out a wealth of events, activities, and adventures in a trails type format. The trails include art galleries, horse farms, you-pick farming operations, locally owned restaurants that feature North Carolina food products, and picturesque bed-and-breakfast inns. Duplins towns are listed along the trail named Red White and Blue on this website. The HomegrownHandmade website is designed to stimulate statewide sustainable tourism and to showcase the states rural riches. Areas targeted include the agricultural trails and itineraries, such as those along I-40 and Hwy. 70. www.HomegrownHandmade.com

MAGNOLIA

Chestnutt Farms  
JB Stroud Stand, Hwy. 11, Magnolia        910.296.7357
Hanging baskets of ferns serve as decorations while they wait for a buyer at Chestnutt Farms roadside stand. The season starts in April with luscious strawberries ripe from the fields, followed by spring cabbages and onions. Next, youll find blueberries and later, sweet watermelons. Later, youll be treated to peanuts and grapes. The season ends with pumpkins and mums in the fall.

MOUNT OLIVE

Glenwood Farms, Inc.  
413 N.C. Hwy. 403 East, Mount Olive        919.658.2288
Kids and adults alike can learn about North Carolina agriculture from the seasonal crops grown in the fields, the livestock sheltered in the pasture, a petting zoo, and the aquaculture display in the fish house. The farm offers special seasonal events including the Yuletide that includes a lighted hayride. Glenwood_Farms@yahoo.com

Beautancus Christmas Tree Farm  
1569 Beautancus Road, Mount Olive        919.658.4512
Select your Christmas tree fresh off the farm in the small crossroads community with a unique name: Beautancus. The farm opens the Saturday before Thanksgiving offering customers the farms choice of a variety of cedar and pine trees cut by customer selection from the 10 acres of growing trees, plus a selection of mountain-grown Fraser Firs.  The farm has been in operations since 1984. Botankus@hotmail.com.

WARSAW

Best Farms
Perry Rivenbark Road, Warsaw   910.289.1412 / 910.289.1395
Traveling in Duplin during the summer brings many rewards in the form of fresh produce.  The Best family has a variety of long-time Southern favorites, like sweet corn, okra, and peas, plus new favorites like asparagus.  Call to discuss an order and get directions to their farm outside Warsaw.

Westwater Country Ham   
1277 N.C. 24/50, Warsaw           910.293.7294 / 800.868.2055
This family has made the art of curing country hams their mission for generations.   Westwater operators prepare and cure each ham using the familys recipe that has been passed down through the generations. Along with local sales at the ham house, the business sells and ships their product nationally.