The Softer Side of Appalachia
Flat Rock author’s debut novel garners latest award In the canon of Southern Appalachian fiction, Meagan Lucas makes for unlikely company. First and foremost, the…
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Finding Fungi
Successful local mushroom farmer to be featured at Garden Jubilee Greg Carter – aka The Mushroom Man – operates Deep Woods Mushrooms Farm in…
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Happy to be Blue
The worldwide research behind a “Plant Slant” cooking class Brevard’s recent commitment to the internationally branded Blue Zones Project has tasked the town with…
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Greening Up the Afterlife
Mills River property is North Carolina’s first Conservation Burial Ground Some may say Cassie Barrett is obsessed with death. But she would say quite the…
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The Shirts Off Their Backs
Raising fiber animals for love, art, and profit By: Lee Stevens As the most senior employee at Mountain Top Fibers, Frankie doesn’t punch a…
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Celebrating a Strong Turnout
The face of determination looks something like Ashley Louer, an employee of Strong Hand Fitness who recently competed in the gym’s inaugural Strong Hand…
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One Day, Two Farms, Four Legs
Rather than the crop-duster approach to farm tours — i.e., sprinkling in as many stops as possible in one weekend — the NC Foothills…
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Everybody’s Foodshed
The benefits of local eating should be common knowledge There’s no excuse not to nurture our own foodshed, according to local urban homesteader and…
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Grape Escape
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented drinking The only self-guided tour in the state — maybe even the whole Southeast — to showcase four different…
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If You Like Miniatures, This One’s For You
A side project that local artist Barbara Wilcox had originally put on the back burner quickly turned into what she now calls her “pandemic…
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