Haywood Harrell loves raising crops and seeing things grow. He sees it as an opportunity. Harrell learned to love the land as young boy as he farmed with his father who was a sharecropper. Harrell began his own farm in 1980 in Tillery, NC. He says he was drawn to the area because of the many black resettlement farmers that he met and the stories that he heard during his time as a North Carolina Extension Agent.
Harrell now owns and leases around 3,000 acres of farm land that he farms with his brother and his son, Reginald Harrell. He hopes to keep his legacy alive and pass down his farm, debt free, to his son and grandson.