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In North Carolina, Character Education is mandated. In the press & Santa Too, Nov. 24; Christmas on the Farm, Dec.
fall of 2001, the Student Citizen Act of 2001 (SL 2001-363) 14-16 and Dec. 21-23; and Topper’s EGG-ceptional Egg
(www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/HTML/ Hunt and Spring Days, with dates to be announced.
H195v7.html) was passed into law by the North Carolina
State Legislature. This Act requires every local board of ed- Food is available at Pa’s Kitchen, including hot dogs and
ucation to develop and implement character education in- hamburgers, chicken nuggets and sandwiches, barbecue
struction with input from the local community. and more. Specialty foods include hot doughnuts, corn
nuggets, roasted corn, muscadine grape slushies, funnel
As a group approaches each one of 10 signs on the trail, the cakes, fried Oreos, fried Pop Tarts, freshly squeezed lem-
character trait “word” is on a flap on the front of the sign. onade, popcorn, and more.
When the flap is lifted, the student finds the definition of the
word. Once the trail has been completed, the group will be John and Tammy Peterson started Hubb’s Corn Maze
exposed to 10 Character Traits. shortly after the birth of their son, Luke. Tammy grew up
on the farm. John grew up in town, but spent summers
The Hubb’s website will include a matching activity that the working on farms. “As creative and fun-loving people,
teacher can print for we began brainstorming about ways to create family fun
students to complete, once back at school, to reinforced what in Sampson and surrounding counties. We decided that
they have learned. this was a perfect way to get families out on a farm while
having fun,” says Tammy.
Hubb’s also offers other educational tours including: Santa
on the Farm Tour, Just for Fun Christmas Tour during the For more information, contact the farm at www.
holidays and Topper’s Egg-ceptional Egg Hunt Tour in the hubbsfarmnc.com. Tickets may be purchased online at
spring. The tours include an Alphabet Maze/Commodity www.hubbsfarmnc.com.
Trail.
Hubb’s Farm, one of the state’s largest agri-tourism
The farm schedules home school days and small group days farms, is owned and operated by Tammy and John Pe-
and is available year-round for birthday parties, family re- terson. It is located at 10276 US Hwy 421 N, Clinton,
unions and corporate events. NC 28328; www.hubbsfarmnc.com; info@hubbsfarm-
nc.com; 910.564.6709.
Other weekend events at Hubb’s Farm include Hubb’s Ex-