OPERATION SPRING PLANT, INC. was organized in 1987 by Reverend Z. D. Harris, Phillip and Dorathy Barker, and Dr. Benjamin Chavis in an effort to assist North Carolina's only two remaining black-owned dairy farms in maintaining their owner/operator status. As a result, both farms were saved.

OSP continues this tradition of providing educational training and financial assistance for minority, limited resource farmers, and small farm farmers of North Carolina.

FOCUS

The very name, OPERATION SPRING PLANT, INC., expresses the ultimate goal of the farmer - to get the spring crop in as early as possible, thus taking full advantage of the growing season and early market.

The mission of Operation Spring Plant, Inc. is to provide an environmentally safe food product, technical and financial assistance to minority, limited resource and small family farmers, who need to engage in timely seasonal planting activities; and who need marketing outlets for the sale of their crops; and to sustain their farming livelihood and operation.

Mission

Operation Spring Plant (OSP) is a grassroots, nonprofit organization operated by farmers and other business professionals. Their mission is to provide an environmentally safe food product to the community and to create an opportunity for the region's limited resource, minority and small family farmers to work cooperatively to sustain economic viability in the face of major cuts to the tobacco program and competition from larger competitors.

(c) 2004 OPERATION SPRING PLANT, INC.
Located at: 567 Rowland Street, Henderson, NC 27536
Mailing Address: PO Box 1759 Oxford, NC 27565
Phone: (252) 492-7301 | Fax: (252) 492-1368

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