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.

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.

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.

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.

Farmer support organizations are helping farmers with USDA paperwork and deadlines—but they can only do so much, notes Roland McReynolds, executive director of Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, ...