Local Tastes

When Mike Jones looks across his Franklin County farm, he sees pigs, pine trees and fields of scrubby green clover.

April McGreger's "kilt" lettuce salad offers a taste of North Carolina's past and future.

Trends in the seed industry have sustainable agriculture advocates worried that a growing portion of seed heritage may come under private ownership.

Raleigh's Moore Square Park was once a peaceful spot to eat a picnic lunch during the workweek.

At Genesis Farm, five miles west of Chapel Hill, kids can climb on Daisy the tractor, chase chickens and eat fresh tomatoes right out of the garden.

In a lightening flash of irony, Mother Nature served up the first big rain we've had in months during the farm tour sponsored by the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association.

Where pigs fly and mushrooms grow

Second-career farmers find small town life is good

Switch to organic farming pays off

The scenery along Green Hope School Road, off N.C. 55 in Cary, tells a familiar story; our rural landscape is being reshaped, the fields and farms replaced by housing developments. Yet as I drive past newly paved streets lined with brick houses, I discover a farm stand that is connecting people to North Carolina's agricultural roots.