Every year, Tim and Matt Nichols create hundreds of different kinds of Japanese maples — in a dizzying array of shapes and colors and sizes — at their mail-order nursery in East Flat Rock. And every one of the trees has roots in their grandmother’s garden.
On her Poetry Porch in Mebane, North Carolina’s poet laureate welcomes family and friends, encourages rich conversation, and helps us navigate a different kind of world.
Find out what three experts have to say about picking the perfect apple, baking the most delicious pie, and searching for the hard-to-find heirloom varieties of our state’s favorite fall fruit — plus the one apple they’d eat for the rest of their lives.
For generations, one family has made sure that Rameses looks his best on game day — and has kept him safe from ram-nappers.
Stocked with paper maps and picnic lunches, one family’s minivan becomes a time machine, carrying them across North Carolina and back to a simpler era.
A tiny entrepreneur with a giant heart sells lemonade by the gallon to help babies in need.
In Caswell County, a cabin built from old tobacco barns reflects one family’s farming history in every way you might expect — and many you wouldn’t.
A rush of memories carries one former camp kid back to the North Carolina river where he rafted the rapids, navigating waves and plunging headlong into the future.
So you want to be a nature photographer? Take a trip with a professional shooter as he captures the beauty of falling water.
