Can you imagine a place where farmers grow hundreds of acres of fresh produce, graze cattle, raise shrubs, trees, herbs, and bees-create dozens of value added products like Peach Shine Jam & Rainbow Trout Caviar-while embodying the character of a rural community?
Buy Haywood is a project of the Haywood Advancement Foundation designed to support Haywood County farmers, locally grown products, farmlands and the preservation of our rich agricultural heritage.Since its inception in 2007, Buy Haywood has worked to connect our growing base of community-minded consumers with quality Haywood County grown products through various outreach projects.
Buy Haywood is a project of the Haywood Advancement Foundation designed to support Haywood County farmers, locally grown products, farmlands and the preservation of our rich agricultural heritage.Since its inception in 2007, Buy Haywood has worked to connect our growing base of community-minded consumers with quality Haywood County grown products through various outreach projects.
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Buy Haywood is a project of the Haywood Advancement Foundation (HAF) designed to support Haywood County farmers, locally grown products, farmlands and the preservation of our rich agricultural heritage. HAF strives to improve the well-being of the county as a whole, by working to bring together the various public and private groups necessary to promote job creation and economic development.
The project aimed to foster healthy eating and increase the sale of locally grown fruits and vegetables in Western North Carolina through expanded knowledge of fresh food preparation and nutrition education. Local chefs partnered with farmers to conduct a series of cooking demonstrations in Haywood, Jackson & Buncombe counties.
Our 2014 outreach project is inspired by our highly successful two-year Cooking Local Project (2012-2013). The design of Cooking Local Together draws on the most successful elements of our previous project while also expanding to include interactive components rooted in the national, evidence-based program "Food is Elementary" from the Food Studies Institute.
Historic Haywood County is home to over 700 working farms encompassing roughly 56,212 acres. In an era where America loses, on average, two acres of farmland per minute to development-sowing the seeds of preservation and leadership has never been more important. According to preliminary 2012 Census data released by the US Department of Agriculture, significant North Carolina findings include a decrease in both farms and farmland.
Buy Haywood's Farmer to Chef initiative connects farmers, chefs, and distributors in Haywood County and surrounding counties. If you are a farm interested in selling to restaurants, a restaurant looking for local farm products, or a local/regional distributor, we invite you to be a part of this program.
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Lonnie B.
Nov 26, 2018
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Anna B.
May 06, 2018
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Ducketts is my favorite place to get fresh produce, farm fresh eggs (They have their own laying hens and the eggs are TRULY FRESH), corn meal, jellies and jams, baked goods and more! Their prices are usually better than the grocery stores and the people that run the place are so knowledgeable and friendly. They have relationships with the farmers and growers they use and can tell you where each item is from as well as when the items were harvested. They value their customers and ALWAYS voice their appreciation for my business. These folks want their customers to be pleased with their products,
Amy S.
May 25, 2017
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We used to go the Maggie Valley location. It was just O.K. This location seems worse! We were really excited to try their stuff. Duckett's sells produce from their own farm and local farms. The strawberries we purchased were totally tasteless- the berries themselves were huge, a state that always makes strawberries boring, but these were nothing- not even a hint of flavor! First time I have ever experienced that. The corn was O.K.- one ear I felt at Duckett's was soft with rot; the few we purchased had rottenish ends. I just cut the ends off. The cucumbers were so bitter that we could
