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Guests during a Lavender U-Pick Day

owned and operated from 2006 to 2020. Finally, another of my’s greenhouse and other buildings and farm machinery con-
Tammy’s creative outlets, Backroad Pickins, was her storefront nected to her flower fetish, on the other. If the natural beauty
for selling the chalk-painted, re-imagined home furnishings doesn’t draw you in, the fanciful fragrance of the lavender will;
she would find at yard sales and estate sales, fix-up and flip. the distinct floral aroma is light and fresh, both woodsy and
herbal, sweet and somewhat smokey — a feast for the senses
For years Tammy drove to work at her companies in Cumber-
land County while Dwight commuted to Wake County at night
for his post office job. With opposite schedules and demand-
ing workloads, the two often relied on kitchen counter notes
for their weekday communication. Then they lived across the
road from their current home in a pretty brick house where they
raised two daughters. The Currins moved to the land on Peach
Farm Road — named for a peach farm just up the road —
in 1987 after meeting and marrying in 1985. Dwight’s father,
Jack Currin, who tended the land himself and grew grain on the
farm, gave them the farm. Dwight raised cattle instead of crops
but rented the land to another farmer. The Currin family farm
is named Classic Crest.

When their girls were grown, the pair downsized and built
a new, smaller home across the road from the old one. Their
younger daughter and her husband, Ashley & John McCarthy
along with Hunter, Holden & Abby, live in the original home-
stead. Their oldest daughter, Justice Reyes, lives in nearby
Holly Springs with her two children, Addison and Carson.

The Currin’s current house is a farmhouse-themed, cozy coun-
try home filled with beautifully restored antiques, repurposed
treasures Tammy has creatively painted and crafted, and of
course, flowers. The Purple Bloomers lavender field flanks it
on one side and rows and rows of beautiful cut flowers, Tam- Little girls enjoying the Lavender U-Pick Day
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