
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…
Read MoreRaising fiber animals for love, art, and profit By: Lee Stevens As the most senior employee at Mountain Top Fibers, Frankie doesn’t punch a…
Read MoreHow Sam Lewis didn’t get fenced in Sam Lewis is nominally an Americana artist. But a listen to any of his albums — most…
Read MoreCompetitive ice-cream-eating champs will try for a “three-peat” Showing up on a Tuesday to the North Carolina Mountain State Fair two years ago turned…
Read MoreThe Southern Appalachians are known for a comfortable climate and for extreme biodiversity — including pumpkins without limits. Susie Zuerner has been cultivating up…
Read MoreThey are often hidden away, in closets or bottom drawers — those childhood mementos of an earlier, and, it seems, simpler time: the…
Read MoreAmong animals known for their fiber, alpaca and sheep come first to mind, as well as goat for its cashmere. All have distinctive proteins…
Read MoreAppropriately enough, Alan Muskat isn’t completely sure what he’s going to present when he visits the WNC Ag Center in Fletcher for the Mother…
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