Barbara Holtz has COPD, asthma, and emphysema. She lives across the road from the land proposed for a natural gas plant and wants the supervisors to reject it.

Dreaming of harvesting peaches, plums, apples or figs from your own backyard? Growing delicious homegrown fruit starts with ...

Bitternut hickory was long considered a worthless “trash” tree. Locals now believe it contains a hidden treasure – and could ...

Eastern gray squirrels may appear to be routine backyard wildlife, yet in Kentucky, they hold formal recognition alongside ...

Julie Kelley, a member of the town’s integrated waste management advisory committee, learned Durham burned the pile of ...

Eastern gray squirrels may appear to be routine backyard wildlife, yet in Kentucky, they hold formal recognition alongside ...

It’s a stark fact: Growing the food we eat contributes to global climate change. About 22% of greenhouse gas emissions can be traced back to farming and its related land-use changes. But when it comes ...

Thanksgiving is nearly upon us, a holiday nearly synonymous with turkey. It might not be widely known for it, but North Carolina raises more turkey than any other state, according to an analysis of ...

Chimney Rock will soon be home to a new rock-climbing area featuring some of the toughest climbs in North Carolina. It’s welcome news for one of the communities that was hardest hit by Hurricane ...

EXCLUSIVE: Story Kitchen, the production company known for its work in adapting video games for film and television, is teaming with the creators of Grow a Garden to develop a feature adaptation of ...

Life is busy. Food is plentiful. And so, I do what most people do: I take the easy way when it comes to putting food on the table. Yes, I still raise vegetables and in earlier years I even grew enough ...