The Duckett family from the Crabtree community – William and Sheila, their son and daughter-in-law Dibe and Ashley, and grandchildren Clayton, 12, Jack, 4, and Mary, 3 – are truly an all-American family living out the American dream right here in Haywood County, their customers agree.

All of their hard work is clearly evidenced with now three signs in Haywood County proudly displaying “Duckett’s Produce.”

The Duckett’s now thriving family business certainly had humble roots back in 2005 when Dibe and Ashley, a then newly married couple who grew sweet corn and pumpkins and raised cattle, originally had the idea to fix up their feed and seed storage building in Crabtree across the road from what was Dibe’s grandfather’s general store in an effort to set up a convenient shop in Crabtree to ...