Rowan County Farm Bureau members Doug and Randall Patterson are third-generation operators of Patterson Farms, a 600-acre spread in China Grove.

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and for some North Carolina farmers, being in the turkey business makes this a busy time …

There’s no place like home for the holidays.

As the days grow shorter and a light chill enters the night air…

While most places start to cool down a bit in the fall, for the past three years, September has been the hottest month in Oxford.

Punxsutawney, Pa., isn’t the only town that uses an animal to predict the weather.
Every year, the Western North Carolina town of Banner Elk gets its winter weather forecast from one tiny but athletic Woolly Worm.
Since 1978, thousands of people have flooded the small village in October to celebrate the coming winter at the town’s Woolly [...]

Come October, bat imagery becomes more commonplace as kids and adults prepare for Halloween frights. But a good look at bats reveals they are not scary creatures at all, but instead, a friend to farmers and powerful mosquito eaters.

Another kind of crop is taking root in North Carolina. You might have just been walking on some moments ago or seen your favorite team run on it.

The wine industry might be well entrenched in North Carolina, but there is another beverage industry that’s burgeoning: microbreweries.
Though they have only been legal — yes, legal — since 1985, there are a number of microbreweries producing a variety of beers in every region …

It began in 1994 as an idea during a late-night conversation in a hotel room at the annual beekeepers meeting. Fifteen years and nearly $250,000 later, it’s come to fruition—the North Carolina Zoo is now home to a monumental Honey Bee Garden.