One North Carolina farm is encouraging its visitors to linger over a good book while they enjoy freshly picked strawberries, blueberries, and other farm products.
My boys and I visited Smith’s Nursery in Benson to pick strawberries. While watching them pick three boxes of berries, I found a spot in the shade. Settling in a rocking chair on the back porch of the ice cream shack with a few scoops of chocolate, I noticed a Little Free Library.
I looked through the books in the library box at Smith’s Nursery and found a novel to read while my boys were busy picking in the fields and playing on the playground. While rocking and reading, I realized what a great opportunity this was for farms to promote a love of literacy and agriculture by stocking agricultural accurate books…