Sandwiched between the Boone Golf Club and the Watauga Medical Center are the 12 acres Claud Austin still farms in Boone. The 75-year-old Watauga County Farm Bureau member keeps about 25 head of beef cattle in this northwestern North Carolina town that’s grown by leaps and bounds thanks to tourism and Appalachian State University.
Austin remembers [...]

Christmas Cranberry Salad

Ingredients
1 lb. fresh cranberries
1 cup sugar
1 pkg. (small) miniature
marshmallows
1 apple, peeled and chopped
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup heavy whipping cream
(may use 1-8 oz. Cool Whip)
Directions
Pick, wash and finely chop cranberries. Add sugar, marshmallows and mix. Refrigerate overnight. Add apple & nuts to cranberry mixture, stir. Fold in whipped cream (or Cool Whip). Refrigerate.
Serve [...]

North Carolina Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers & Ranchers program offers training and fellowship to farmers ages 18 to 35 as a guide for those who will be the leaders of North Carolina agriculture as it progresses into the future.
The agricultural and service-based accomplishments of YF&R participants are recognized, in part, through the Young Farmers & [...]

No matter how many children or generations there might be in a single family, Dixie Classic Fair director David Sparks believes the longtime event in Winston-Salem contains something to satisfy everyone’s appetite, interests and curiosity.
“That’s one of the things that really makes fairs distinctive from other events like amusement parks and parking lot carnivals is [...]

Alleghany County Farm Bureau member Bill Ebert described himself as semi-retired, still raising a few head of beef cattle, but they are only a fraction of what he once had on his 200-acre spread bordering the Little River.
One afternoon, Ebert observed a 30-acre hayfield that’s one of his primary plots to grow winter feed and [...]

The College of Veterinary Medicine at N.C. State University turns out scores of graduates each year. Many will spread throughout North Carolina attending to family pets within large population areas.
However, many others choose to go into the state’s rural settings, opting to care for larger animals such as cows and horses. Dr. Malcolm Roberts, interim [...]

Rewind back to 1978. Some Wilmington residents called their downtown area “deserted.” Front Street winding along the Cape Fear River looked vacant compared to its heyday.
Local community supporters want to make a change. They came up with Riverfest, an event to celebrate Wilmington’s nautical heritage. Oct. 7-9, 1979 marked the inaugural event.
Now 32 years later, [...]

A storm contains plenty of force when thunder and lightning appear. State climatologist Ryan Boyles from N.C. State University shares how these typical storm elements form.
Boyles says three critical ingredients are necessary to create thunderstorms: instability in the atmosphere, moisture and some sort of mechanism to lift that warm air near the ground, such as [...]

Just about any fruit and vegetable you need for that special recipe or dietary recommendation can be found at North Carolina’s farmers’ markets and roadside stands. Growers have been cultivating and harvesting to bring the best of what they raise to families, restaurants and grocers. Whether it’s scheduled for dinner that night or to store [...]

North Carolina wildlife experts believe people and beavers share a common attribute that makes them unique from other members of the animal kingdom.
“Beavers are the only animals besides people that can really manipulate their habitat according to what they need,” says Colleen Olfenbuttel, the black bear and furbearer biologist for the North Carolina Wildlife Resources [...]