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Pecan Pickin’

Text and photos by Ray Linville A couple of weeks before Thanksgiving, our thoughts often begin to shift to traditional pies and other desserts, much more than the bird that will anchor the center of the table. One traditional pie for my family is a Southern favorite—pecan. Can you imagine foraging for pecans or walking… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Destinations, Food, Uncategorized Tagged With: farm, Moore County, pecans, Ray Linville, Sandhills, sharecropping

“I Can Feed You”—Farming, Activism, and Food Justice

Text and photos By Virginia Hamilton This summer was a particularly rough one. While wading through a host of personal issues, I was also absorbing a constant onslaught of images of bloodied, dust-covered children being pulled from wreckage and black bodies dying on shaky cell phone cameras. Refugees, soaking and sinking. Too little water and… Read More →

Filed Under: Food, Uncategorized, Western NC Tagged With: activism, farm, food justice, Warren Wilson College

Visit the Goats

Text and photos by Ray Linville If you like artisan cheese, visit the creamery where it’s made. Even better, get introduced to the animals. If you like chevre, a word we borrow from French for goat cheese, don’t forget to talk to the goats. When Paradox Farm held Spring Farm Day and opened its property… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Destinations, Food, Products, Uncategorized Tagged With: cheese, farm, farmers market, goats, Got to Be NC, Moore County, Paradox Farms, Ray Linville

Learning About Cheese Making (and Feeding a Baby Goat)

by Ray Linville To watch cheese being made, taste some artisan cheese samples, and take home a package or two, I headed to the Blue Ridge area of our state to travel part of the Western North Carolina Cheese Trail. Little did I expect to be bottle-feeding a day-old baby goat. Within minutes after arriving… Read More →

Filed Under: Destinations, Food, Products, Recipes, Uncategorized, Western NC Tagged With: agriculture, cheese, cheese trail, dairy, farm, farmers market, goat, Got to Be NC, Ray Linville, sustainable agriculture

Mountain Trout Is N.C. Good

by Ray Linville Imagine fishing in a fast-flowing, rocky mountain stream and reeling in trout for dinner. Such experiences have always been part of the food culture in the Blue Ridge region, whether for the Cherokee with prehistoric ties to its hills and streams or the families who settled there after the Trail of Tears… Read More →

Filed Under: Destinations, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized, Western NC Tagged With: agriculture, aquaculture, Blue Ridge, Cherokee, farm, farmers market, fish, Got to Be NC, Haywood County, heritage tourism, Mountain, Ray Linville, trout, wildlife

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