Organic farm, Farm, Livestock producer in Hurdle Mills, NC
Pine Knot Farms is a certified organic, Black-Owned family farm in Hurdle Mills, North Carolina. It grows organic tobacco, collards, kale, broccoli, cabbage, mustard greens, beans and potatoes, and raises pasture-raised hogs and chickens. Its collards drew praise from Gourmet Magazine. On-farm hours are Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM.
Stanley Hughes's grandfather bought 125 acres in 1912; the family has farmed it for over 110 years. Stanley began farming on his own in 1975 and went full-time in 1996. He and Linda Leach-Hughes run it as a certified organic farm, selling tobacco to Santa Fe Natural Tobacco. Honors include NC Rural Center's Rural Entrepreneurs of the Year (2022) and Farmer of the Year from the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (2013).





