Genesis

Tracing one ingredient, from farm to plate.

Archive, Features, Genesis, Homepage, Summer 2018

The Sweetness Of Summer

Honey produced at Jewel Hill Farms in Marshall makes it way into summer cocktails mixed at Sovereign Remedies in downtown Asheville.

Archive, Fall 2017, Features, Genesis, Homepage

Unsung Heroes

Seed farmers are the unsung heroes of the garden world, and their work is often hidden from casual home gardeners who flip through seed catalogues or pick up seed packets each spring.

Archive, Genesis, Homepage, Summer 2017

The Sweetest Fruit

Strawberry ice cream, from ground to cone.

Archive, Genesis, Holiday 2016, Homepage

The Pull of the Soil

Flying Cloud Farm co-owner Annie Louise Perkinson returned to Western North Carolina farm life to build a business. Collard greens are one crop that grows in steady rotation.

Anne Grier harvesting beets at Gaining Ground Farm in Leicester, North Carolina.

Archive, Fall 2016, Genesis, Homepage

After planting variety of beet seeds, Anne and Aaron Grier of Gaining Ground in Leicester watch and wait, both patiently and anxiously, for the Golden Grex, Chioggia, Early Wonder Tall Tops, and Robin seeds to germinate.

Archive, Genesis, Homepage, Summer 2016

The Great Blueberry Rescue

The first summer Rett Murphy and Kathryn Skelley-Watts owned their farm, a visiting friend walked into a field overgrown with weeds and immediately disappeared from sight. A few minutes later, Murphy said, “I saw his hand rise up over the jungle, holding a few berries.” With that, plans for the farm changed.

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