Hendersonville, North Carolina “Everybody wants something different,” according to apple grower Anthony Owens. That’s why, in addition to 14 varieties of apples available in both organic and conventional, this small-scale North Carolina farmer produces apple wine, nectarines, and 20 certified organic acres of mixed vegetables. He is also looking into planting peach trees and expanding […]
Spinning Spider Creamery
Marshall, North Carolina The “spider” of Spinning Spider Creamery might once have referred to owner Chris Owen—back when she raised Angora goats and spun their fleece into yarn. Now, though its poetic name remains the same, the operation is home to a herd of 50 dairy goats, the Angoras gone. The switch from fiber developed […]
Hickory Nut Gap Farm – Spring House Meats
Fairview, North Carolina In business class their senior year of college, a North Carolina boy and a Kentucky girl crafted a partnership around 200 chickens, 50 turkeys and 360 acres of family farmland in the Appalachian Mountains. Within four years, they were married with a baby on the way, and owned 1,000 chickens, 350 turkeys, […]
Zimmerman’s Berry Farm
Black raspberries ripen first at Zimmerman’s Berry Farm. Then blackberries, followed by blueberries, golden raspberries and wineberries (an extra juicy red raspberry), and finally red raspberries in August. People come from as far as Atlanta , Georgia , to pick fruit at this 50-acre, mostly wooded western North Carolina mountain farm. With her husband Billy, […]