Emmett Snead III knew from the time he was 11 years old that he wanted to be a farmer.
In 1980, Snead bought the land now known as Snead’s Asparagus Farm. In the early years of the farm, Snead regularly drove to 60 supermarkets and about a dozen different farmers markets to sell his produce, in addition to selling at the roadside stand here at the farm.
But as business picked up, and as the Snead’s Farm Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program caught on, Snead found he could sell 100 percent of his produce without having to truck it anywhere.
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