(from Duke Environment Magazine)

Yancey House Restaurant's Featured Farmers
January & February 2010

Michael and Lucindy are pleased to work with area farmers
so as to have the freshest and highest quality ingredients
for preparing your meal.

Hannah’s Hydroponics. In their greenhouse in Chatham, VA, Buddy and Joyce Beimel, who moved to Va. From New Orleans, grow twenty-seven varieties of delicious lettuce. Lettuce grown hydroponically is generally healthier than plants grown in soil, since they receive a near perfectly balanced diet.

Cat Briar Farm is located in scenic Caswell County. For the past 30 years, Graham and Sara have raised chickens, sheep, goats, beef cattle, and two chldren. The garden has evolved from a family sized plot for freezing and canning to a full-time endeavor. Since 2002, they have sold produce at the Durham Farmer's Market, offering a variety of fresh, nutritious produce and herbs.

Massey Creek Farms in Madison NC. The McCollum family has been farming land in Madison for over 200 years. The farm has been passed down through many generations of steward farmers who have preserved the land while cultivating it to provide incomes for their families. Currently six McCollum families work the farm to provide their customers with excellent, natural, and fresh food.

Cane Creek Farm in Snow Camp, NC is comprised of over 500 acres of creeks, pastures, and woods, creating a special home for unique breeds of pigs and cattle, as well as families of goats, chickens, turkeys, sheep, donkeys and ducks. Owners Eliza MacLean and Charles Sydnor practice sustainable agriculture -rotating crops and animals to keep the soil (incredibly) healthy and to keep the animals on fresh forage. Their animals have free range to graze, root, and wallow.

Painted Hills Natural Beef comes to us from Wheeler County, Oregon. Their story begins in the mid-1990s when seven ranching families, disturbed by the trend of the blending of various beef products , decided to work together to eliminate the inconsistency while producing natural meat of the highest quality. Their cattle are fed an all-vegetarian diet and given no growth hormones or antibiotics. For most of their lives they range freely. At 14 months, cattle are fed a combination of locally grown barley, corn and alfalfa hay which lends to the extraordinary flavor of their beef.

Old Mill of Guiltford in Oak Ridge, NC. was founded on Beaver Creek in 1767 to grind grain for the early settlers of what is now Guilford County. Today, the mill continues to produce all-natural, stone-ground, whole grain foods, just as it has for over 250 years.

Joyce Foods. Our French heirloom chicken – Faisan Blanc Fermier du Piedmont – comes from this specialty producer of all-natural poultry and game products, located in Winston-Salem, N.C., with a farming operation in the Piedmont region of NC.