Each year, Our State celebrates North Carolina’s talented artisans with the Made in NC Awards. In 2020, top honors went to a potter in Weaverville, a meadery in Durham, cheese makers in Climax, a cutler in Leland, and a mom-and-pop sneaker manufacturer in Asheville. Now, it’s time for you to meet North Carolina’s award winners.
Most people don’t think about the soil they walk on. But Tori Motyl knows its potential: In her hands, western North Carolina clay becomes a stunning expression of place. Read more.
In a knife maker’s workshop in Brunswick County, decking from the retired USS North Carolina is enlisted into a new kind of service: as a chef’s right-hand tool. Read more.
Across the seasons, Diane Currier gathers the work of bees — the blossoms, fruits, and honey. She brings them back to Honeygirl Meadery in Durham, where the bees’ bounty is bottled for all to taste. Read more.
Set on 40 acres of bucolic Randolph County farmland, Goat Lady Dairy produces top-quality cheeses for all occasions, including an award winner called Providence. Read more.
A Buncombe County couple is reviving independent shoe manufacturing in North Carolina, creating winning styles like their popular Riverside Hi sneakers. Read more.
For our editor in chief, the familiar songs of trilling birds sound like home.
These flower arrangements inspired by Biltmore, Reynolda, Duke, and Elizabethan gardens are proof that blooming where you’re planted can be truly awe-inspiring.
Taste, bake, explore, and celebrate what North Carolina has to offer this month.
When schools across North Carolina closed last year, one family turned their home in Greensboro into a different kind of classroom.
