Richmond

Freshly picked squash at the Sandhills AGInnovation Center. Photo: Nancy Pierce.

The Sandhills AGInnovation Center promotes farming

Categories: Gallery, Richmond Tags: AGRICULTURE, Farming

The Sandhills AGInnovation Center works to nurture rural farmers in Richmond and Montgomery counties, while connecting them to urban markets.

Davon Goodwin, manager of Sandhills AGInnovation Center in Ellerbee, NC, inspects crops. Photo: Nancy Pierce

Innovative agriculture connects farmers to urban centers

The Sandhills AGInnovation Center works to nurture rural farmers in Richmond and Montgomery counties, while connecting them to urban markets.

Trails, roads, rails and sky: The changing physical connections that knit our region together

A growing web of infrastructure and physical connections – both within the wider region and between the region and the outside world – has had a profound effect on where growth went, and where it stayed away from. People and industries in the Carolinas Urban-Rural Connection study area followed trading paths, railroads, highways and, now, air service.