Food & Flavors

In our region, one of the most common mushrooms during the fall and winter is the turkey tail mushroom.

Gaultheria procumbens, also known as the winterberry, boxberry, and checkerberry more or less officially goes by the appellation of the Eastern teaberry, but most folks drop the first half of its name.

What was one this region's most predominant tree has now become merely an afterthought.

The sourwood is only found in Eastern North America and is most abundant in the Blue Ridge – making it a quintessential Southern Appalachians tree.