The owners of Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm in Newland, North Carolina, speak about the family-owned farm and how they grew a tree to be selected by the White House.

This year’s honor was bestowed on Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm in Newland, North Carolina. Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm is family-owned and operated; it has grown Fraser firs since 1959.

A map of rural North Carolina’s votes bears this out. In 2020 several North Carolina farm counties voted for the Democratic candidate for commissioner of agriculture, and not by a little: Anson.

North Carolina is the second largest producer of Christmas trees in the country, selling $144 million worth of Fraser firs in 2022. Jennifer Greene runs the state's Christmas Tree Association.

The two in North Carolina include Timbermill Wind and another project in Elizabeth City, dubbed the "Amazon" wind farm. That project provides energy to Amazon and came online in 2017.

Across North Carolina, treated sewage sludge—known as biosolids—is spread on farmland as fertilizer. But growing concerns over PFAS contamination have farmers, utilities, and regulators ...

Hickory Nut Gap Farm is in Fairview, North Carolina, a high elevation floodplain of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It’s one of more than 9,000 farms in Western North Carolina.

North Carolina is the second-biggest Christmas tree grower in the country and home to the Cadillac of Christmas trees, the Fraser fir. This time of year is a tree farm's Super Bowl.