A North Carolina Farm for the Pickin’

J.W. Mitchell Farms in Franklin, North Carolina (Author Credit)

Off an unassuming winding road cutting through the thick hardwoods against the panoramic mountains of North Carolina near Franklin, there lies a picturesque farm teeming with rows and rows of peach trees, tomato, corn, and pea crops, flowers, beehives and smatterings of delectable edibles in an Appalachian Eden.

“U-Pick” says the rustic sign along the roadside, and with the intent to follow through…