You'd expect to find chickens in a chicken house, but the Cabe family in State Road has chosen a different type of inventory.

At Cabeland Farm, you won't find poultry.

Instead, a little country store filled with just about everything you could want or need.

Teresa Litschke takes us there.

(upbeat music) - Cabeland Farm is a place that you can come and you can just relax and enjoy.

Just mill around and look and see what you can find that you might not see anywhere else.

- The chicken houses were once part of the Cabe's farm.

- We raised chickens.

Thank goodness we are out of chickens.

(laughs) - And when they stopped raising chickens, the chicken houses became storage until daughter Kenzie Cabe had the idea to begin filling them with everything she loved.

- Which put us in shock because as she grew up, she was not artistic, she was not outgoing, she was very shy, did not want to talk to people or anything.

As long as she could mess with her animals, she was happy.

- With the help of her parents and grandparents, they got to work repurposing the old chicken houses into a fun and welcoming retail shop.

- Yes, yes, you know, you see too many empty ones around that are falling in and stuff and so we had to build them so I said, we need to utilize them instead of letting them just fall or having to tear them down one day or whatever.

- So, here we go.

(laughs) - What they created is similar to a general store of yesteryear.

- Yeah, so we have a little bit of everything between furniture and candy and canned goods, anywhere from apple butter to caramel apple butter.

We have sweet potato apple butter, jellies and jams.

- They have fresh sausage that they had just killed from their own hogs.

- So they are completely grain fed, no antibiotics, no nothing, all organic meats and stuff that we have.

It's things that people ask for.

It's things that we had in the past.

We have like the dilly beans, which is your pickled beans.

So we try to have things that are your everyday things but then you try to have things that people think back and say, wow, my grandmother did this.

That takes people back in time.

- The same can be said for the furniture they sell.

- These old pieces that we get in, you know, we say all the time, if they could tell a story about where they've come from and what they've seen.

- So she will find antique furniture that may be ready to go, or she'll find antique furniture that is dilapidated that they will refurbish either to what it originally was or into something completely different.

- Visitors also have the chance to create something that could become part of their own history through art classes.

- We do a little bit of everything.

We do a lot of our stuff on wood, which makes us stand out and unique 'cause a lot of places use canvas.

So we do barn quilts and stuff like that.

- Just like to paint.

I don't get an opportunity at home.

So this is a way to get it done.

It's a really good experience here.

- My daughter and I came last spring and painted one for our house.

- It's my first time, so I'm like, I just don't wanna mess it up.

- It's a masterpiece here, that's for sure.

We'll try that.

- Just as the Cabes gave new life to old chicken houses, they hope their little country store in the middle of the North Carolina countryside also offers visitors something money can't buy.

- This is an absolute picture from God.

That's the best way I can explain it.

- Very scenic, I would say.

Yeah, just very peaceful and quiet.

- And that's what we want.

We want people to feel like they can come and just relax.

- They feel like they can come in and just breathe.

That means a lot, because you're doing something right.

- Cabeland Farm is located at 2060 Mountain Park Road in State Road, North Carolina.

The store is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m.

to 5 p.m.

For more information, check out their Facebook page or give them a call at 336-874-7777.