David Burnett, farmer and jack-of-all-trades, embodies the self-sufficiency and hospitality characteristic of an earlier generation.  Burnett’s family has lived in a cove outside of Canton, NC since the 1870s and has continued a tradition of working the land using old-fashioned methods for survival. Burnett’s preacher once said,  “David was born 150 years too late.”

“People don’t realize they can make things.  Somebody made it.”

-David Burnett

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