Gritt’s Farm is not what it used to be. The farm, in the hills behind Buffalo, has always been a working farm. Twenty years ago and before, the work was tobacco — burley tobacco, a very labor intensive crop.

In the early 2000’s, tobacco growing at the farm and in Putnam County abruptly ended with the tobacco buyout and end of federal subsidies.

Cattle, greenhouses, pumpkins and mums replaced tobacco. In 2006, the farm opened…