At Catawba Trail Farm, the Main ‘Crop’ Is Self-Reliance

At Catawba Trail Farm, the Main ‘Crop’ Is Self-Reliance

This story originally published online in The 9th Street Journal.On a recent Saturday, a group of volunteers gathers in a field in northern Durham, squinting against the wind, adjusting their hats and tightening their coats. They pull on their gloves and head into the woods, away from the clucks of chickens. “There’s history in these trees,” volunteer Lilton Evans Jr. says, later, gazing upward into the canopy of trees at Catawba Trail Farm. The…