Farms are disappearing in Forsyth County. How one local family is keeping them alive. - Forsyth News

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Farms are disappearing in Forsyth County. How one local family is keeping them alive.

Dennis and Denise Cantrell pose for a picture on Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, at their home on Keith Bridge Road. The couple has lived there since 1975 and been farming on it for about the last 10 years. - photo by Brian Paglia

FCN Dennis and Denise Cantrell Farm Family 2 110718 — Dennis and Denise Cantrell pose for a picture on Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, at their home on Keith Bridge Road. The couple has lived there since 1975 and been farming on it for about the last 10 years. - photo by Brian Paglia

Dennis and Denise Cantrell don't earn a living from farming, but that was never the point. It was meant to preserve a way of life and their own nostalgia for it.