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US (NC): Flowers helping keep farm tradition alive

Emily Blanton said her family has owned Cana Farms for more than 100 years. She is the fifth generation to farm the land that she and her husband live on near Mocksville.

Blanton said so many people in her family have participated in keeping the farm alive that she wanted to do her part.

“I started to think, ‘Well, what can I do? Here’s this resource and what can I do with the farm?’” she said.

Blanton, an local attorney at Kluttz, Reamer, Hayes, Adkin & Carter, in Salisbury, has always enjoyed growing and cutting flowers, so she decided to make that her contribution to the farm with the help of her husband, parents and brother.

She said the idea to grow flowers was planted in her mind by Pam Morris, a floral designer, who suggested the idea during Blanton’s wedding.

Read more at Davie County Enterprise Record
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