update 2/26/2013 Dear friends of Maverick Farms, On Monday afternoon (2/25/13), we had our first face to-face meeting with with the NC Dept of Transportation (DOT). Two officials, Mike Pettyjohn (North Wilkesboro) and Ivan Dishman (Boone) visited the farm. Maverick Farms executive director Hillary Wilson, her partner, farmer Worth Kimmel, and, co-landowner Bill Wilson, attended… Read More Maverick Farms and DOT threats – February 26, 2013
Dear friends of Maverick Farms, Today was the big meeting with the NC Dept of Transportation (DOT) at the farm. The meeting was neither good nor bad — the DOT said they will “look into alternatives.” The biggest thing to come out of the meeting was the success of the social pressure that the DOT… Read More February 25, 2013 DOT Update
Maverick Farms stands to loose substantial portions of its productive ground from a proposed NCDOT project to REROUTE an existing dead-end road through our farm fields to build new culvert bridges. Please let the NC DOT know that you stand for family farms everywhere — they are vital community resources — and that Maverick Farms’… Read More 2013 – MoveOn Petition to Save Maverick Farms from DOT Destruction, over 1500 signatures
State highway department intends to pave two farm fields of Valle Crucis-based Maverick Farms to make way for bridges VALLE CRUCIS, NC, Feb. 6, 2013 — Maverick Farms, a long-time leader in the effort to create a just and accessible local food system in Watauga County, is under imminent threat from North Carolina Department of… Read More February 6, 2013 — Innovative Watauga County Farm Under Threat from Imminent NC DOT Bridge Expansions
