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Okra, an Appalachian staple, in season at Asheville City Market. Photo by ASAP. Restaurants like Knife and Fork didn't use to exist in places like Spruce Pine, a town of just 2,200 people nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina...

Area farmers are getting ready for the growing season and their CSA programs Spring is fast approaching. That means WNC farmers will soon begin harvesting asparagus, greens, and spring onions to sell at farmers tailgate markets and to pack directly...

Food and farming are way, way, way down on the list of issues of greatest importance to American voters as they head to the polls this November. In fact, neither issue even registers on the most recent Pew poll. Yet agricultural policy is heavily implicated...

I’ve been writing this blog now for almost seven years. For a time, green and simple living, and a certain DIY ethic was the edge of my growth curve. I read books and blogs about these topics and dreamed of a chicken-less urban homestead. And of course...

How do we feed ourselves without laying waste to the earth, and ruining everything for the next generation? If you think about it, that’s the  existential question for humanity. (As opposed to, say, should I use the Oxford comma? What&rsquo...