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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (WJZY) — For a lot of Queen City slickers, the chance to enjoy a rural setting is rare.
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Maybe that’s why parents bring their kids to appreciate the simple life at Sweetwater Farms in Huntersville.
“Look at that!” we heard, as three boys took turns sitting on a tractor.
“Alright, it’s Jackson’s turn, switch!” says Brittany Brendle of Denver, who brought her son and a couple of his friends.
“[My son] loves that you can kind of go and run and be free and have a good time,” she told Queen City News.
“I can just enjoy watching him be a kid outside and not be stuck inside,” says Brendle.
Instead of streaming movies, here families find entertainment by frolicking in a stream. The hope is that this rural setting gives you the feels.
“We are a ‘feeling farm.’ Kids come here; they gain confidence,” said owner Suzan Lurz.
Lurz says at first her grand vision looked great on paper. The plot within the pages of her book was the inspiration for Sweetwater Farms.
“I want you to listen to the words and believe in them,” she said, reading an excerpt aloud.
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Susan is a children’s book author. Her first published book was The Sweetwater Animal Society.
In a way, her words jump off the page and onto the farm where families now experience something refreshing.
That book gave her the blueprint.
“It occurred to me that this would be the perfect place to build the real Sweetwater Farms,” Lurz said.
That’s right, she turned fiction into a farm.
“This whole place is based off of the feeling and emotions that come from this book,” she says.
Lurz is even building a market and restaurant on the site.
But the real special of the day is a change of pace.
“We read a lot of books with animals,” said Tiffany Yasin, there with the Charlotte mom’s group. “So, for them to get out and see them, interact with them, being able to see them, touch them.“
“The kids love it, but as adults we love it,” says Lurz. “It just makes us feel a certain way to be out with the animals and in nature.”
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Lurz says she’s been working on more children’s books. She’ll also continue to operate Sweetwater Farms.
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“It’s a feeling I can’t describe because it makes me so happy,” Lurz said.