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Blackwell Farm
Carbon Sequestered
Blackwell Farm works very diligently to fulfill its role in the Greater Community of Bio-Diversity and Ecological Leadership. The whole is managed accordingly for Carbon Sequestered Climate Buffering and Native Arboreal habitat.
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Generative Conservation
The present Layout was designed by A. R. Blackwell, who worked at one time as a Soil and Conservation man for Stanley County, NC (Albemarle). The original plan features wildlife planting and was originally stocked with pheasant and quail, alongside soil conservation measures and nitrogen-fixing legumes and browse, etc.
Over the years ponds were constructed and riparian areas nurtured along the brooks and streams. The fields were terraced and contoured for Soil Conservation measures.
Pasturelands and No-Till
While the crop rotation schedule originally featured Tobacco alongside Corn, Sorghum and Milo, it was eventually converted to a no-till platform consisting of pastureland for grazing and hay, with browse and forage. Pasture management featured cool weather grasses such as Orchard Grass and Fescue plus summer season grasses such as Tifton 9 Bahia and Bermuda grass. Overseeding was done with clover and summer annual grass cocktail mixtures, plus natives like birdfoot and Eastern Gamagrass.
Family Tradition
The Blackwell Farm occupies the heart of what was once a distributed assemblage of allied families, spread across a sprawling complex of nearby and adjacent localities. It constitutes what might be called ‘the Old Homeplace’ for generations of Blackwell ancestors.
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