Our new facility features a climate-controlled 7,200 sq ft warehouse equipped with a mezzanine, which will be packed to the brim with the best fruits, vegetables, meats, eggs, dairy and shelf-stable goods these mountains have to offer!
Keeping our produce fresh is a top priority. It holds in all that flavor from the cool mountain nights, and the vitamins and minerals from our rich soils.
We sold more meat in 2022 than the past 9 years combined. Even if a rancher could complain, they wouldn’t! We’re planning a new walk-in-freezer to keep more local meats in our inventory.
Farmers can now pull through the warehouse for delivery. A dry farmer is a happy farmer indeed, as long as the fields aren’t!
We’re planning shared-use produce washing stations that meet the highest standards of food safety. Using Spruce Pine municipal water, farmers won’t need to pay for on-farm water quality tests.
For farmers, food pantries, gardens or anyone who needs a place to pack food and essentials for our community. We packed and distributed over 15,000 local food shares in 2022 alone. That’s a lot of suppers!
A farmer favorite! Our farmers save around $50 everytime they use our reusable bulk bins, and around $4 every time they use one of our totes. TRACTOR farmers saved an estimated $28k in packaging using this service last year.
Never take a dry, warm place to work for granted. After working from an old bus and an office that liked to take on water for the past few years, TRACTOR employees are ready to host our community with some level of comfort. You’ll certainly see more smiles through the winter!
No more shivering in a cold warehouse while we’re talking food and farming. Farmer workshops and community meetings–all around the dinner table. We’ve always been a happy family, but now we’ll be a warm one too.
Our new facility boasts a massive, acre parking area which has farmers market, craft sale and food truck rodeo written all over it. Pickup your Farefield bag and enjoy the festivities!
TRACTOR services have grown an average of 30% every year since 2020. This 10,630 sq ft building and 2 acre property offers plenty of space for TRACTOR to plow ahead!
Your donation goes directly to the Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional, INC (TRACTOR Food & Farms), a 501c3 Charitable Nonprofit Organization.