Seed wagon and custom sprayer help North Carolina-based Howell Farming tend to the state's top veggie crops -- sweet potatoes ...

North Carolina expands nutrition education with fresh fruit and vegetable program. Per the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction 212 schools across North Carolina are participating in ...

Through his association with Driscoll’s, the California-based company that sources berries globally, Lewis learned of a ...

A North Carolina sheriff's office is warning people about bogus phone calls made by someone identifying himself as a deputy.

Did you know that sweet potatoes are North Carolina’s top vegetable crop and are the official state vegetable? North Carolina produces about 50% of all the sweet potatoes in the ...

The use of cream cheese instead of cottage cheese. Sweet potatoes are the official state vegetable of North Carolina—but they’re also the key ingredient in the state dessert, sweet potato pie.

A gathering in North Carolina last year resulted in 10 probable ... The outing in the western region of the state in November culminated in a presumed outbreak of trichinellosis, a rare parasitic ...

Invasive plants tend to push out advantageous native species and cause other negative ripple effects. For example, tree of ...

The North Carolina State Fair has it all ... kids is at the Field of Dreams (No. 14 on the map), where they can pick vegetables and see the rabbits, Russell said. Russell also recommended catching ...

North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler described Helene as the most devastating disaster the state had ever faced ... We also have a lot of fruit and vegetable producers in that ...

And in McDowell County, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission reported "significant damage" to a state fish hatchery ... diseases to thrive" in vegetable crops, the analysis said ...