Cornelius Resident Hopes To Cultivate Network of Farms, Fans of Good Food
By Dave Yochum. A 35-year-old Cornelius resident has established the Carolina Farm Trust to preserve not just farmland, but the agrarian way of life in North Carolina.
“We want to find farmers and match them up with land,” says Zack Wyatt, who lives with his wife Abby and five children on Oakhurst Boulevard.
The brand-new Carolina Farm Trust aims to protect farmland, foster an ecosystem of sustainable farming and support the farm to table movement. Indeed, farmland is disappearing at the rate of 100,000 acres a year in North Carolina.
“We want to compete with developers for land, buy it, and lease it back to the farming community, to cover the taxes,” Wyatt says.
The fundraising goal for Carolina Farm Trust in the upcoming year is $300,000.
Wyatt is launching CFT with a bang. He plans to hold the Carolina Jubilee music and food festival Oct. 16-17 at Van Hoy Farms in Harmony, about 45
