A chalk sign guides farm visitors to a storytime event in a barn. The storytime took place at Sunrise COmmunity Center Farm in Chapel Hill, N.C. on Feb. 13, 2025.

A child, age 2, and her guardian pet a horse during a pony riding session at Sunrise Community Farm Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. on Feb. 13, 2025.

SILVERDALE – Before he died in 2009, Gerald Petersen instructed in his will that his property be sold “as a whole and as a working farm.” The Great Peninsula Conservancy announced their ...