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| Pastures surround the B & B house |
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| Young lamb I met ! |
The interstates that coarse though South Carolina and bring
travelers to the coast can also offer other experiences along the way. Exit
anywhere in the
Olde English District of South Carolina, comprising of seven
counties between Charlotte and Columbia, and exposure to terrain from sandhills
to foothills is a guarantee. Attending a recent meeting of the
Kershaw CountyForest Landowners Association was reason enough to delve deeper into the rural
heritage found nearby.
My next stop in the countryside was
jut minutes away, since I was checking into Old McCaskill’s Farm B & B in
Rembert for the night. The long time copy editor for the salmon sheets is Col.
James Rembert, and he shared many stories over the years of driven hunts in
Rembert with his kinfolk, and how I should visit there one day. To be fair, he
also advised me to stay away from writing with a passive voice, but at least I
made it to Rembert!
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| Twin baby goats born during my visit !! |
The house on the hill at Old
McCaskill’s Farm looks nostalgic, but after a visit with owners Kathy and Lee I
learned that the structure is actually quite new. “Our house burned to the
ground in April 2007,” said Kathy McCaskill. “My husband is a contractor so we
built it back to resemble a plantation house. When our kids grew up and moved
out of the house we had lots of room, and by 2013 we decided to open as a B & B. Perhaps the Lord had a plan for us all along.
My lodging in the Horse Paddock
room was clean and comfortable with a private bath, and a large community
balcony was nearby. They offer a farm to table breakfast for patrons with eggs
and bacon from animals raised on their farm. In fact, they have come to embrace
agribusiness as a full-time endeavor raising goats, sheep, chickens, and pigs.
Using a USDA facility to package the meats for sale in their farm store, their
operation resembles the store in Ravenel at Cordray’s Processing.
The community at large is invited
to visit their commercial kitchen on Friday’s for lunch prepared by daughter
Ashley Robinson. Her menu changes each week depending on what is fresh, and was
recently featured in the S.C. Market Bulletin produced by Ag Chair Hugh
Weathers. Guests are free to roam the 10-acres of grounds in order to make
photos of the animals and to view farm operations. A nanny goat giving birth to
twin baby goats, and a border collie corralling the sheep were just a couple of
the activities seen during a day in the life of this working farm.
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| My room - the Horse Paddock |
