Bladen family finds solace in their quest

God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt, and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, ‘Maybe next year.’ I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps; who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, and then pain’n from tractor back, put in another seventy-two hours,” so God made a farmer.

TAR HEEL – The Shelton Family bought a farm, EE-I-EE-I – Oh my!

As a follow-up to the very special and much needed concept that was launched in Elizabethtown as a “farm-to-table” store in August, we take a more in-depth look at how the Shelton family with no agricultural experience, decided to launch new careers at middle age and learn how to navigate uncharted waters.

Former military couple Scott and Hillary Shelton did something courageous and daring as they left their jobs in the military and became a first-generation farm family.

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