Sunset Ranch Organics produces cleaner, greener crops

Michael Jaenicke
Features Editor, The Robesonian Newspaper

LUMBERTON — Afeni Shakur-Davis would like to paint cities and towns across the nation green.

Shakur-Davis, the mother of slain rap singer Tupac, is thinking globally and acting locally. She and her husband Gus D. Davis Jr. are owners of Sunset Ranch Organics, an organic farm that attempts to improve or maintain the soil to produce chemical- and pesticide-free crops.

Sunset Ranch, which has about 17 acres of organic crops, became a certified organic farm in 2005. Visitors were given a sneak peek at how the farm works on Saturday during an open house. Sunset is one of about 100 certified organic farms in North Carolina and the only one in Robeson County.

Shakur-Davis, a 61-year-old Robeson County native who didn't live in the county most of her life, decided to start the farm because she was concerned about future generations... Read more >>