The Inn at Celebrity Dairy
We went to stay at the Inn at Celebrity Dairy last weekend. It happened to be one of the three “Farm Days” weekends they have each year, so when we arrived there were dozens of families playing in the hay barn, eating goat cheese, coursing through the paddocks, petting pigs, chasing chickens.
We went to the grocery store in nearby Siler City to get basic supplies and returned to picnic and have a bottle of beer on the front porch as farm-day-trippers were filing out — to watch the sun go down over the hen house, watch the peacocks strut around the front yard. There were just a couple other over-nighters — a nice family from Charlotte who keep bees and hike the Appalachian Trail a lot — our farmer-hosts Brit and Kathryn, and us. It couldn’t have been better.
We stayed in the back bedroom suite of the Inn, which gives out on a fireplace and the little living area of the original log cabin structure there since 1800. You can also stay in additions upstairs or (I think) in one of the other buildings on the farm. Things remain mysterious there in a good way, because you’re sort of left to fend for yourself, to poke around, serve yourself breakfast, explore.
Our farm is only a few miles from the dairy…
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Ian Oeschger Reply:
February 25th, 2009 at 7:44 am
I know! We asked after you, Trace. A woman working at Celebrity said she was…um…the girlfriend of a partner of yours at the farm…or the sister of someone….In any case they knew you and said you were nearby. We were half thinking we’d try to stop by. Rachel said when we were there in front of that twice-converted school bus that she’d seen pictures of it on Cricket Bread.
What a great area.
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Trace Reply:
February 25th, 2009 at 7:51 am
That was Caitlin. She is Noel’s sister. Noel is one of the four partners in our farm.
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Ian Oeschger Reply:
February 25th, 2009 at 7:58 am
You guys must have seen the piece in Encore not too long ago about the photographer who went to photograph organic farming — I guess it was your farm? — but gravitated toward portraits of the farmers themselves and their lives. Isn’t that Noel coming out of the creek and covered in mud?
Trace Reply:
February 25th, 2009 at 8:07 am
That was at Black River Organic Farm. Noel still does the farmers market in Wilmington for Stefan. The photographer – John Cranford – is coming to stay with us for two weeks in March.