
by Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi
“I’ve always had a thing for farms,” said Thomas “Tommy” E. Kellum of W. E. Kellum Seafood Inc. in Weems. Combine Tommy’s penchant for produce with a need for a retail outlet for fresh seafood, and Kellum Farms Produce & Seafood was born.
Customers filed in and out of the produce and seafood market on a hectic Labor Day holiday weekend, which coincidentally marked its one-year-plus-a-week anniversary. They entered empty-handed and emerged with armfuls of corn, tomatoes, fresh fish and homemade ice cream.
The farm market at 3413 Irvington Road, Irvington, is a natural extension…[to-view-more]