HENDERSON COUNTY Farm Bureau Member Fred Pittillo has been selected as a finalist for the 2009 Swisher Sweets Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year Award. Pittillo is the owner of the family business Turf Mountain Sod, where they operate 1,200 acres in Hendersonville. He and his wife Merle began their successful career in sod after making the switch from dairy farming over 20 years ago. Pittillo will receive a check for $2,500 and other prizes. He will represent North Carolina at the Sunbelt Expo in Moultrie, Ga. where he will compete for the Southeastern Farmer of the Year Award. The winner will receive $14,000 and free use of a Massey Ferguson tractor of his choice for 12 months or 500 hours, whichever comes first, plus other prizes.
HERTFORD COUNTY Farm Bureau brought NC Ag in the Classroom Director Louise Lamm, Curriculum Specialist Ellen Gould and County Ag in the Classroom ambassador JoJo Nichols to The Ridgecroft School for training on “The Farmer Grows a Rainbow” curriculum kit.
The lessons are for students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, and connect nutrition and fitness to core curricula and the source of food, the farmer.
HERTFORD COUNTY Farm Bureau sponsored a Blood Drive at Ahoskie Methodist Church in Ahoskie, and 48 people donated. Helping with the event were Monica Spitznagle, Kay Greene, Gladys Brown, Katrine Spruill, Brenda Copeland, Patricia Hughes, Pam Jenkins, Evelyn Rawls, Andy Woodard, Johnny Farmer, Jean Dilday and Addison Hoggard.
HERTFORD COUNTY Farm Bureau sponsored a Blood Drive at Ahoskie Methodist Church in Ahoskie and 48 people donated. Helping with the event were Monica Spitznagle, Kay Greene, Gladys Brown, Katrine Spruill, Brenda Copeland, Patricia Hughes, Pam Jenkins, Evelyn Rawls, Andy Woodard, Johnny Farmer, Jean Dilday and Addison Hoggard.
Thank you so much Peggy