Daffodil Spring Farm is a community-scale farm located in the pastoral Valle Crucis community of Watauga County.
We raise pastured pork and delicious vegetables. Daffodil Spring Farm practices ecological and ethical agriculture, growing food that is good for the land, animals, and our community. Farmed by Dave Walker, Daffodil Spring Farm complements his local-food system work and his passion for growing toward a just future. The name of the farm comes from the daffodils that show before our last snow. They're hopeful and tell us that the mountains will soon be green again, full of new vibrant colors.
Daffodil Spring practices ecological and ethical agriculture and holistic land management. This means that pigs are frequently rotated every two weeks to fresh pasture. What the pigs have rooted up is sowed with a cover crop mixture of buckwheat, crimson clover, and annual rye in the spring and summer and winter wheat and crimson clover in the fall. This builds our soil and provides food for the animals. It also makes for a pollinator paradise when the cover crop flowers!