Piedmont Agrarian Collaborative (PAC)

Piedmont Agrarian Collaborative is a new collaboration of small family farmers in North Carolina's central Piedmont, centered around a cluster of farms near Saxapahaw, who are joining acres together to provide you with the highest quality produce, pastured meats, and value-added products. At our farms -- which include Pont Reading Farm, the Henry Farm, Eat Dirt Farm, Farmbelly, Machaven Farm, Dinner Bell Farm, Braeburn Farm, and Red Tail Grains -- we believe healthy soils produce delicious, nutritionally dense, healthy food. To build soil health, we follow no-till, regenerative, agroecological principles. Although not certified organic, all our produce is grown without synthetic chemical inputs, pesticides, or herbicides. We use cover crops between plantings, rotate livestock through growing areas, and diversify the crops we are growing -- and our farms are situated in woodland settings, creating vibrant "agroforestry" landscapes teeming with pollinators and biodiversity. Our animals all have access to the great outdoors, on pasture and in woodlands. We also grow all year round, including through the winter. This means that the food you are buying is fresh, local, and of the highest quality. Our focus is not only on growing quality food and regenerating soils and landscapes but also on building community together while we're at it. Our farmer-led food hub in Burlington is also a gathering place where we held our first event in summer 2024, and we look forward to collaborating with chefs and restaurants on other special farm-to-fork events. We also collaborate with other community-based and nonprofit food equity organizations such as Southern Alamance Family Empowerment (SAFE), to which we regularly donate or steeply discount our surplus produce.