Meriwether Payne

President

Meriwether grew up in Norfolk; her love for the Shore started at the age of 3 when her parents purchased “the farm” south of Locustville, with weekends and summer vacations learning to fish for flounder, enjoying the barrier islands, crabbing, and hunting fiddler crabs in the marsh.  She majored in biology at Randolph Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, and went into the horticulture industry.  In 1992 she moved to the Shore permanently and started a wholesale nursery. In 2013 she got her captain’s license and started her current business, Seaside Ecotours, taking family nature tours and birding trips out to our barrier islands.  

Why I Support CBES: Since I moved here in 1992, CBES has been a part of my family life.  ShoreLine kept me well informed about important issues I might not have read about in the local papers. Over the decades my family have all enjoyed the Between the Waters Bike Tour and the Pig Roasts at Cherry Grove Farm. I was flattered to be invited to join the CBES Board of Directors and have enjoyed all of our meetings, activities, and partnerships.