Taste
Championship plates on this ridge. Take the bottles home, cook from the archive, or book the weekend.
Lee and Michael cook.
Martin, Kara, and Jackie host.
Ride
Gravel, running, and music on the lawn. The trail runs Crowley’s Ridge. Dates live on studioDRIFT.
Remember
The 1903 house. Four houses west of 163. The Angus years. Whit’s vegetables are a different book.
Who’s here
The cousins still working the ridge
- Lee Cooks.
- Michael Cooks.
- Martin Keeps the house. Puts the rides on.
- Kara studioDRIFT. Birdeye Farms.
- Jackie Same map.
History
The house
Walnut Camp. Still a working house.
The W.M. Smith House sits on Major R. Pope’s Walnut Camp — the overnight wagon stop on Bay Road from Wittsburg. After the war the four Smith children shared it. Martin and Kara keep it now. Jackie is on the same map. Festival weekends put bikes, music, and plates on the lawn.
1903 · still a working house
Four houses
West of 163
Mid-1950s they peeled off across Pope Creek and built four houses on the old tract. Jim grew up in the second one.
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1954
Maurice Jr.
3335 Highway 163
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1956
Jim’s parents
3343 Highway 163
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mid-1950s
J.H. & Winnie Bob
West of 163
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mid-1950s
Elizabeth & Jimmie
West of 163
The herd
Birdeye Angus Farms
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1925
First commercial Blacks — a curiosity in cotton country.
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1936
Purebred herd. Quality Angus breeding since 1936.
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1951
First private Angus auction in Arkansas. On this farm.
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1959
“Birdeye, a Veteran of the Mid-South.” Four hundred registered cows.
Whit grows vegetables on this yard now. Different book.
Ride the ridge, or eat on the lawn.
Dates from studioDRIFT. Plates from Lee and Michael. Bottles from the shop.
