Bull City Farm:  A Childhood Dream Becomes Reality

Originally published in Carolina Farm Stewardship Association blog “The Sweet Potato,” September 18, 2012, By Lesley Lammers

Scott and Samantha Gasson of Bull City Farm began raising animals on their property in Rougemont because of what Scott calls  “a bad habit of collecting animals.”  They first started out as somewhat accidental farmers after offering to help a neighbor raise 40 heifers when he lost his help. This pushed the Gassons from a hobby to a working farm.  Grazing animals on the land at first was no easy task.  Samantha recalls, “It was just sand. There were big open spots with no graze, no pasture whatsoever.”  It had been overgrazed by horses which can severely compact the soil and not add much nutritionally.” Continue reading…