As you round the curve into Germanton, you see our farm.
Our 34-acre farm was originally a portion of a former civil war plantation that grew tobacco in the Piedmont of North Carolina.
The original plantation house stands in the town of
Buffalo Creek is located in one of the last predominantly agricultural areas in
During its lifetime, Buffalo Creek Farm has been a dairy farm and a fish
farm. Today, it is a exotic sheep and meat and dairy goat farm with a few
Hereford/Angus Cross cattle and miniature Zebu cattle. Buffalo Creek
owners also produce rabbits for training brace beagles for tracking
rabbit's footprints, pet rabbits and guinea pigs.
Our family has owned the property since 1992 and has worked to restore the buildings and to erase the signs of five year's worth of neglect and abandonment. What started as a farm to board the family's four horses, developed into a sheep, goat and cattle operation along with rabbits and guinea pigs.
Buffalo Creek bisects our farm and flows to the
The stream is home to Riverweed Darter, Etheostoma podostemone.
They have large pectoral fins, high dorsal fins, eyes almost on top of head, rounded tail fin, elongated body, blunt nose and terminal mouth, "XW" shaped blotches or evenly spaced spots on side of body, dorsal and tail fins yellow with light orange spots, lower fins dark, and green and yellow body.
They live in streams and rivers with clean, loose boulders, rubble and gravel in swift runs and riffles in the
They eat insects, mites, snails and fish eggs.
Eggs are adhesive and laid in clusters under rocks.