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April’s Wild Edible: Wild Garlic

Fayette County, West Virginia’s Mitchell Dech is one of my foraging mentors, and when he wants me to try an edible new to me … I’m ready to learn about it.

April’s Mountain Wildflower: Trout Lily

Like its western relative the glacier lily (Erythronium grandiflorum), trout lily (Erythronium americanum) is often found pushing its way through a blanket of snow in early spring.

Where the River Meets Revival

From the Haw River Ballroom to Saxapahaw Island Park, charming North Carolina town is a haven of creative expression, community spirit and natural beauty

Classic Preacher Cookies

In a season when we’re opening windows, tidying porches, and welcoming people back into our homes, they feel especially fitting.

March’s Wild Edible: May Apple

Sometime this month in the Blue Ridge Mountains, one of these highlands’ signature spring plants will ease from the soil … the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum).

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Wild garlic growing in Fayette County, West Virginia.

April’s Wild Edible: Wild Garlic

Fayette County, West Virginia’s Mitchell Dech is one of my foraging mentors, and when he wants me to try an edible new to me … I’m ready to learn about it.
Trout Lilly. Credit Joe Cook and Monica Sheppard

April’s Mountain Wildflower: Trout Lily

Like its western relative the glacier lily (Erythronium grandiflorum), trout lily (Erythronium americanum) is often found pushing its way through a blanket of snow in early spring.
RIVERSIDE ROCK Housed in a former cotton mill, the Haw River Ballroom is a place that connects you not only to music but to the land itself.

Where the River Meets Revival

From the Haw River Ballroom to Saxapahaw Island Park, charming North Carolina town is a haven of creative expression, community spirit and natural beauty
Classic Preacher Cookies

Classic Preacher Cookies

In a season when we’re opening windows, tidying porches, and welcoming people back into our homes, they feel especially fitting.
A May apple in bloom in Southwest Virginia.

March’s Wild Edible: May Apple

Sometime this month in the Blue Ridge Mountains, one of these highlands’ signature spring plants will ease from the soil … the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum).
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