If you're interested in becoming a local farmer or growing food to take to market, there's a free intensive program to teach you how to grow, sell, and run a small business. Applications are due this ...

In the heart of a mule lies the spirit of persistence, unyielding to the weight of its load,” it reads on the Mission Mules ...

While insurance companies press for higher premiums from policyholders to cover liability, state insurance commissioners are fiercely negotiating with the companies to keep rates as low as possible to ...

Veterans Healing Farm has been selected by the Veterans Administration to be a Health Care Telehealth Outpost in partnership with the Western North Carolina VA Health Care System in a collaboration ...

Southern Living has previously praised Western NC for its beauty. Here's the reasoning behind the 7 locations writers chose ...

Months after Hurricane Helene devastated farm land in the western part of the state, a rebound is expected for farmers.

Months after Hurricane Helene devastated farm land in the western part of the state, a rebound is expected for farmers.

North Carolina might expand an experimental initiative to address the nonmedical health needs of low-income residents by using Medicaid dollars.

Your heirloom tomatoes might be famous county-wide. But in North Carolina, if you want to turn them into salsa and sell them ...

Officials with FEMA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other state agencies held a walk-through event in Avery County on ...

In a world that’s upside down sometimes, we’ve still got food — we can all agree on that, and I’m one of the lucky ones.” ...