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An agritourist magnet in Bulloch County
Hunter Cattle has grown in unexpected ways
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Thousands of school children from multiple counties have come to Hunter Cattle Co. for a sample of the farm experience. Here, Richmond Primary School students ride in a trailer for a tour in March.
Hunter Cattle Company didn't start out to be a magnet for agritourism, but it didn't start out to be an award-winning natural-fed meat business, either. Between days when she takes groups of 100 to 150 or more school kids on tours, Kristan Fretwell gave a reporter and his son a short tour and talked about how her family's business keeps developing in seemingly accidental ways. "Whenever we started, we started raising the meats just for our family, and never intended on having this business, and sure enough people just kept on asking to buy meats, and we just keep growing and growing," she said.
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Gamers trade remotes for colored pencils at Averitt summer camp
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Camp instructor Cheyenne Smith looks over the work of Hudson Mathews, left, a first grader at Bulloch Academy, and Memphis Butts, a second grader at Portal Elementary, on Monday, July 14, during the first day of Gaming & Art: Turning Video Games into Crafts summer arts camp at the Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts in downtown Statesboro. (JASON MARTIN/special)
The Averitt Center has taken popular video game stories and characters like Mario and Minecraft as inspiration for its summer arts camp, Gaming & Art: Turning Video Games into Crafts. Each day this week, campers are using their own gaming inspirations along with paint, clay and other mediums to create works of art. Lead instructor Cheyenne Smith is assisted by Guarionex Cruz in helping campers with their projects.
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