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A Visit with Teresa
Pull up a chair around the dining table
and share a visit with Teresa Sanders,
the inspiration for the Cox Sister’s family
cookbook entitled, A Taste of Old, A Taste of
New. Owner of Shady Spot Next Generation
Hemp in downtown Robbins, Teresa looks
forward to your visit. To read more, see
Front Page story, “Eight Sisters From Spies.”
What are your thoughts on the importance
of family? Deep conversation. Families should
talk about everything.
Family life today, do you think it’s
healthy or unhealthy? Unhealthy. Parents
want to make their children’s lives easier. Easy
is not good. Easy makes you weak. I’ve always
told my children that I won’t always be here,
and that they would never have a perfect life.
Everybody is not a winner. I think the youth
suicide rate has gone up dramatically because
they cannot handle stress or disappointments.
I’ve told my children that when we’re
gone, I want them to be a bird that lands on
a tree rather than one that crashes. That’s my
philosophy with my children. I will always
stick by that.
I can’t stand it when mothers and fathers
feel that their children deserve so much
better because they’re not giving them
independence to let them know how hard that
something special comes.
I let my children have baths—I’ve already
given them more than me. I let them use a
toothbrush. I take them to the dentist every
six months. They have friends over. I didn’t
get friends over—except once a year when we
went to the beach.
Cell phones have divorced families. They
have divorced more kids from parents and
parents from their kids. A little cell phone can
destroy people’s lives.
What’s the most important thing families
should do? Eat at the table, and turn off the
cell phones during the meal.
How has COVID affected families?
COVID has brought families to the table, as
I think they are cooking more. I know there’s
a plague out there, but I also know there are
people dying in nursing homes because of
depression, not COVID.
There has not been a respectful funeral
since COVID. Everybody is being shortchanged,
cheated. Sickness
and death bring families
together, and COVID has
taken that away. A wedding,
you can’t do that. Every
gathering that surrounds
family, the government has
taken away from us.
Tell me about your
shop called Shady Spot
Next Generation Hemp in
Robbins. I wanted to create
a place to bring people
together to enjoy life. The
entrance is like a mini
general store with a variety
of everything, including
CBD oil from our hemp
farm.
How did you get into
growing hemp? When my husband Darrell
lost his sight, we were raising chickens, and I
started doing research on the future of farming.
One day I told him that we should grow hemp
because it was the future. Meanwhile, one of
his nephews Brian Sanders wanted to invest in
hemp, so that’s how the first crop got started.
We planted about two acres and hosted Hemp
Day at our farm the first year. This year we
planted 650 plants.
When we got our hemp tested, the oil
content was so great that Darrell’s nephew
said we needed to make CBD Oil.
What’s the name of your CBD oil? We
make our own CBD oil and call it Shady Spot
Next Generation Oil after our farm.
Who inspires you? In 1995, my boss Jim
Cole at the drug store gave me the opportunity
to learn marketing. There was a vacant wall in
the pharmacy, and I asked Jim if I could start
selling poultry supplies. Because there was
nowhere else to buy supplies locally, we had
chicken farmers coming from all over. In 2000,
Jim called and asked me if I wanted to buy
the business. I bought it over the phone and
named it Unlimited Poultry Center—because
there are no limits to anything. Still selling to
game farmers, I’ve owned the business since
2000. The phone number 879-2000 so I could
remember what year it was established.
Looking back, would you change
anything? I would have downsized the farm
before my husband lost his sight. If we had
downsized before he lost his sight, then that
would have put less burden on us. When you
work as hard as we do to have things, it’s hard
to let go. We should have turned loose earlier.
The best years of our lives were shared
together in the tobacco fields. Darrell loved
grain farming, soybeans and wheat, and
my biggest wish now is to make his life as
enjoyable as possible since he lost his sight.
What advice would you give others
starting off? Have high expectations. If you
don’t, then you will never thrive. You might
not meet the goals, but the higher you look,
the higher the chance you have to get there.
Don’t lay in bed and dream. Get out of the
bed, and make it happen.
Please finish this sentence. Life is... Life is
a treasure.
Favorites in Moore County? My favorite
store was Mazie’s, the community hangout
in Spies when I was a little girl. Everybody
brought 5-gallon buckets, and we hung out in
front of the store. ☐
No. 141 The Pinehurst Gazette, Inc. p.7
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