Fall is a busy time on the mountain farm. As the gardens wind down, farmers like Buster and Jesse Norton began to harvest their field crops. In addition to corn and sorghum cane, burley tobacco is one of the main crops grown on their farm. They spend most of the month of September cutting it and getting it hung in the barn to dry. At one time it was a common sight throughout Appalaachia to see tobacco cut and sitting in the field in “tee pee” shapes in the fall waiting to be taken to the pole barn to cure. Today that scene has all but disappeared.
In this video you’ll see the many steps involved in this fading process, from cutting the plants and letting them field-wilt a few days, to loading the crop onto trailers and taking the plants to the barn where it’s hung in tiers to cure for eight or more weeks. You’ll get to witness increasingly rare scenes from what used to be a common practice throughout the mountains and meet many of the Norton’s friends and neighbors who come to help with this labor intensive and time-consuming process.
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