Odom Farming Co, Inc, Goldsboro

For three generations, the family at Odom Farming Co, Inc has coaxed forth runners of strawberries, heavy with fruit, and pulled up sweet potatoes in the green fields. They open their land to guests to pick fruit among fields of soybeans and stalks of corn that mutter in the wind. During the fall, the family members cut the fields into a corn maze, and they cart families and visitors around the farm on trucks stuffed with hay like a scarecrow’s purse. Bonfires bleed warmth and light into evenings as the air slowly turns cool and the farm’s harvests of butter beans, field peas, and greens wind down. When not tending to the fields and beehives, the farmers pack CSA boxes crammed with ripe produce.