Farm stands across North Carolina offer more than just fresh produce – many serve delicious lunches too! From the mountains to the coast, these markets combine farm-fresh ingredients with talented ...

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.

In the last census by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in 2022, growers on 940 farms in more than a dozen Western North Carolina counties were growing Fraser firs to sell all over the world.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has proposed funding $422 million for agricultural relief from Helene. In 2022, $10 million was offered to some western North Carolina farms to help mitigate losses ...

Farmers in western North Carolina are starting a years’ long recovery effort after Helene decimated the area. For apple farmers in Henderson County, Helene hit during the peak of harvest season.

His solar development company, O2, which has built about 25 solar facilities, primarily in North Carolina, does so with agriculture in mind. His Montgomery Sheep Farm is a primary example.

But over the past 14 years, it’s most known for its premium sod, the sandy grass grown on a farm in rural North Carolina that sets the stage for special sports moments across the country every year.