QUALITY SWEETPOTATOES
Since 1969, Barnes Farming and Farm Pak have maintained a strong commitment to providing the best in quality sweetpotatoes to keep you and your family healthy through the years!
FEATURED RECIPES
COOKING WITH SWEETPOTATOES
A handful of our favorite recipes featuring our favorite food — sweetpotatoes!
FEATURED
ON THE BLOG
Jacy talks with FreshPlaza about sweetpotato exports to Europe, highlighting a new variety that has gained popularity - Purple Splendor.
The Barnes family and Maxine Whitley, owners of Barnes Farming, donated a portion of their farmland for the expansion of Sandy Fork Missionary Baptist Church’s cemetery.
In 2004, Johnny’s oldest child, Bethany decided to grow watermelons. With years of learning curves albeit success, watermelons have now become one of our signature crops.
You may have noticed across our website that we spell sweetpotato as one word and no, it’s not a typo. Find out why we spell it this way!
Barnes Farming welcomes Jacy Barnes Clapp, the daughter of president and second-generation owner, Johnny Barnes, to the company.
As production begins to ramp up in North Carolina, Josh talks with Fresh Plaza about the year’s outlook on the size and yields of persimmons.
Watch our friend, Michelle Grainger give an amazing TEDtalk at the Cary, NC TEDx event discussing what it means to be a farmer.
Our persimmon business started in 2006 as a learning opportunity and project for third-generation Barnes Farming owner, Josh Barnes. At the time he was just 13 years old but he was eager to grow and manage a crop of his own.