Sprouting Global Economies
byThough by midwinter most Appalachian gardeners are snug by their fires and spring-seed catalogs have not yet slipped into mailboxes, one local nonprofit is…
Though by midwinter most Appalachian gardeners are snug by their fires and spring-seed catalogs have not yet slipped into mailboxes, one local nonprofit is…
The flowers may be over for the time being, but educational nonprofit Bullington Gardens in Hendersonville never sleeps, and has multiple classes in the…
The sturdy rural road that leads to Rayburn Farm in Barnardsville is like the purposeful, if serendipitous, path that led to Lauren and Michael…
Pawpaws do funny things to people. So says Kim Bailey, a local pawpaw farmer and environmental educator. Bailey, who owns Milkweed Meadows farm in…
On his bucolic orchard in rural Fletcher, Brian Upchurch is about as far away from the Mafioso scene of New York City as one…
Cyndi Ball’s homesteading journey started more than 20 years ago in a town outside Seattle — what she calls “granola country.” After trying to…
If wedding ceremonies are the bread and butter of Western North Carolina’s budding cut-flower industry, then a monthly subscription service is the scrumptious, locally-sourced…
Chris Parker was barely a teenager — 14 — when he took a course on cultivating Shiitake mushrooms. “I was amazed that you could…
Brian Killingsworth grew up in Charleston, SC, where his mother and father pruned Golden Celebration roses and potted Parrot Tulip bulbs. They were master…
Lady Luck Flower Farm is dazzling and remote. It looks something like The Sound of Music, but the land is full of exhilarating quiet:…