Five-Points Farm, located in Indian Trail, NC
Fivepointsfarm55@gmail.com
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Kristin and Allen run the NC farm, Kristin’s sister Lisa is the secretary, and here is a little information about Kristin’s and Lisa’s family.
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This page is dedicated to our mother, who introduced us to the farm life.
Ramona Jean Simpson, 1942-2003.
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Our great-grand parents immigrated from Germany, the Netherlands and Scotland, and settled in Michigan and in Alabama. Both sides of our family farmed crops and livestock, and we grew up raising Tennessee Walkers and McCurdy Plantation horses in Alabama with our mother.
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In Alabama, the Lanier and Simpson families in Escambia county farmed peanuts, potatoes, corn, hay, sugarcane, cotton, field peas, strawberries, blueberries, peaches and pecans, and cattle. In Bay county Michigan, the Klopf and Lather families grew wheat, oats, rye, corn, and navy beans. Our dad grew these same crops with his dad.
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Five-Points Farm began in the late 90’s with horses and grade brush goats in Letohatchee, AL, and in 2005 moved to the current location in Indian Trail, North Carolina.
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Our great-grand parents Maybell and Marshall Simpson going on a chaperoned date, powered by spirited Fanny (TN Walker). Simpson county, Kentucky, prior to 1920.
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Great uncle Jake Lather in his buckboard, 1920’s Michigan.
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In Michigan, Great Uncle Jake Lather discing a field in the 30’s, and Great Uncle Gordon with Floria plowing in 1922.
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Great Aunt Gertrude Klopf on one of their plow Percherons in Alba, Michigan, 1930’s. Gertrude died of a brain aneurysm when she was 17 years old.
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Mom riding grandad’s plow mule, late ’40’s, Escambia co. AL.
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Playing with grandmother and granddaddy’s milk goats in Escambia county Alabama, around 1974.
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Kristin riding Reb in the ’80’s, Kristin and Lisa riding Doll in the ’70’s.
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Lisa and Kristin with their goats in the ’80’s in Eclectic, AL.