A small northwest Charlotte farm is growing more than six times its size as Carolina Farms Fund saves land from being gobbled up by development in one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S .
DeepRoots CPS Farm , a nearly 7-acre Black-owned urban farm, grows more than 60 seasonal crops of herbs, vegetables and mushrooms each year behind a wooden split rail fence off Primm Road . The farm also has chickens, ducks, goats, beehives and even a palomino horse named Major.
But after just three years, DeepRoots owners Cherie and Wisdom Jzar said they need more land.
“We have requested demands we can’t fulfill right now,” Cherie Jzar said. “Access (to land) seems to be getting further away.”…