HIGH POINT—This fall, one North Carolina farm is doing something new and different to attract visitors.
Casie Ingram's family has been farming in High Point for more than a century.
"The farm's been in our family since the 1800s,” she said. “It's been passed down. I am the fourth generation that's farmed here. I love it, I wouldn't do anything different."
With the demise of tobacco several years ago, the family needed a Plan B to save their farm.
"They transitioned into strawberries,” Ingram said.
John Ivey with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension, said that a lot of the tobacco farmers who got out during the buyout are looking for the most economical way to keep their farm in production.
“We're seeing a shift to vegetable and fruit production," said Ivey.
The Ingrams are now offering "pick your own" muscadine and scuppernong grapes.
"I think a lot of our farmers are looking for a kind of season extension to keep people coming back to their farms,” Ivey said. “Scuppernong and Muscadines fit in well here."
If you pick your own, muscadine and scuppernong grapes will cost you $1.25 a pound. The picking season runs through October.