Farm Bureau’s golden couples offer insights on life, love and family

By the time a severe weather alert interrupts a favorite television program, people have already tracked the storm and put themselves within storm’s reach all in the name of keeping the public informed. Whether it’s documenting a hurricane’s landfall or tracking a tornado’s turbulent path …

Springtime in North Carolina is often identified as a time of volatile weather.

As warmer weather kicks into full gear, people are pulling out the lawnmowers, dusting off the hiking boots and looking forward to Saturday picnics by the lake. But while everyone might enjoy spending time outdoors, no one enjoys a nasty bout of poison ivy.

Early one morning about two years ago, after 18 years of fruitless camping trips, Michael Greene says he saw Bigfoot.

Rolling green pastures dotted with cows, and silos set against a glowing sunset—both scenes are slowly disappearing from rural North Carolina. A group of dairy farmers are working to put a stop to the shrinking dairy herds across the state, though, and they’ve enlisted the support of agriculture advocates and the General Assembly.

Most North Carolinians probably have no idea what’s cooking at Mother Murphy’s Laboratories in Greensboro. But anyone walking by the 68,000-square-foot facility on Elm Street surely can’t escape the magnificent smells emanating from within.

There’s a new school in Bertie County, and it’s preparing students for college in a whole new way. When the school opened its doors to the first freshman class in the fall of 2008, nine students embarked on a new path in life.

The combination of an intense statewide drought and raging wildfires last year left more than a few barren patches of land across North Carolina.

In October 2003, North Carolina launched the nation’s first statewide, multi-utility program to encourage the development of renewable energy sources for the state’s power supply—NC GreenPower. Five years later, a growing number of North Carolina residents and businesses are joining NC GreenPower in its mission to support the growth of renewable energy in North Carolina. [...]