Tour 12: 
Tobacco, Beef & Trees

Hill Research Forest is set in the rolling hills of Durham County and serves as a site for NC State University Forestry research.  The Forest focuses on pine and hardwood management and water quality issues as well as training Forestry students at Camp Slocum.  Our second stop will be Flue-Cured Growers Cigarette manufacturing facility.  After lunch, we will tour Mountain Creek, a small purebred Angus farm known for their exceptional grazing management. The farm is frequent hosts of NCSU student forage labs and NRCS National Grassland training.  We’ll finish the day at Duke Homestead Historical Site to see how tobacco came to be such an important part of North Carolina agriculture.  This is the location of the first tobacco factory run by Washington Duke.  Join us for this exciting tour!

Flue-Cured Growers Cigarette manufacturing facility

 

Duke Homestead Historical Site

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