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Singing in the Garden: Mud

March is mud mucking, slop, sucking, streams flowing, grass growing, calves running, colts sunning, redwings singing, "Winter's gone, and spring is springing." ~Ginny Neil
Apple Hill Farm offers great views as well as tours, socks, gloves and honey from on-site beehives.

Listening to the Animals

A chance encounter with an alpaca transformed Lee Rankin’s life.
Virginia’s Clinch River will host several park sites along its banks. The Sugar Hill section is open.

Greening the Mountains: Saved Spaces

Across the seven-state mountain region, parks are being expanded, lands preserved, rivers protected, mining areas reclaimed and much more.
Lindsey Gallaher

The Mountain Q&A – Lindsey Gallaher: President of The Museum of Appalachia

This granddaughter of Museum of Appalachia founder John Rice Irwin now leads the 54-year-old East Tennessee museum, keeping the stories alive and showing visitors how people of Southern Appalachia lived in the 1800s.
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Birds of the Blue Ridge: Black-and-white Warbler

This striped little bird is about the size of our chickadees and “creeps” up and down trees like our nuthatches.
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Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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