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Living in North Carolina

Hemp Comes Home

Absent from North Carolina’s landscape for 80 years, the plant with a hundred uses finds its way back to the fields.

by Leah Hughes
Living in North Carolina

Rewriting the Story of Cotton

On a sprawling farm in rural Northampton County, a young Black farmer-entrepreneur is teaching people the value of an ancient agricultural tradition with deep, dark roots.

by Latria Graham
History

Back in the Day: Savior of the Soil

Learn how Wadesboro native Hugh Hammond Bennett became North Carolina’s “Father of Soil Conservation.”

by Katie King

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