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Nature's Way Farm & Seafood, found on localharvest.org

CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture), U-pick farms, and local farmers markets offer the best of the local fruits and vegetables one can get in any given locale.  We move around a lot, mostly because of my wanderlust, but it seems we find ourselves hunting for a place where we can get truly farmer-grown produce.

There's a site we use, localharvest.org and you just put in your location (you can even filter by what type of product you are looking for) and viola! you have lists and descriptions of farms, farmers markets, u-pick and community cooperatives.  We frequent Tidal Creek Co-op here in Wilmington, but do find that it can be cost prohibitive.

Local harvest is great.  That's also where I found about about Nature's Way Farm & Seafood in Hampstead, North Carolina.  They are a national award winning goat dairy making a variety of farmstead cheeses including chevre, blue, feta, gouda, mozzarella, romano,cheddar and pepperjack.They have placed in the top three in several categories at the American Dairy Goat Associations National Cheese Competion for 3 years 2007-2009. They also make goat milk soap,shampoo & lotion. One of the partners is also a commercial fisherman and they sell his catch at the farm. They also sell raw goat milk for animal use and they also sell a few milk goats and kids (baby goats, lol).