How a commercial peanut farmer uses over 100-year-old methods
“It’s antiquated, and people call me crazy for doing it,” says Elisha Barnes of Pop Son Farms in Southampton County, Virginia. He’s talking about the laborious ways in which he farms the peanuts that end up in your trail mix, in packages sold at baseball stadiums, and on grocery store shelves. He’s the only commercial farmer in the United States who grows and harvests peanuts using century-old methods.
In this episode of “Dan Does,” host Daniel Geneen catches Barnes towards the end of his farm’s yield, which sees Barnes going around his farm with a pitchfork pulling up the remaining peanuts.
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