Yes, the chicken salad at this Wrightsville Beach market is as good as it looks. And now you can get it at inland groceries, too.
Market Season
The Essential North Carolina Grocery List: Eggs
Massey Creek Farms is a staple of the Greensboro Farmers Curb Market. Customers flock to its table for pork, lamb, and, most of all, eggs.
The Essential North Carolina Grocery List: Pimento Cheese
The pimento cheese from both Musten & Crutchfield and Conrad & Hinkle is carried in grocery stores around North Carolina. But there’s just something special about going straight to the source.
The Essential North Carolina Grocery List: Milk
Mills River Creamery uses local produce and milk from special Jersey cows to make its silky-smooth ice cream.
The Essential North Carolina Grocery List: Meat
To satisfy customers at Smith’s Red & White, grinders have to grind 10,000 pounds of sausage a week. A week!
Fresh Picks
From the Blue Ridge to Beaufort, North Carolina’s more than 250 registered farmers markets offer a taste of the season and plenty of community flavor.
Ronnie’s Got the Goods
Everything at Ronnie’s Country Store in Winston-Salem takes you back and fills you up. On that, even our poets and politicians can agree.
The Queen of Spruce Pine
This enterprising young woman with strong convictions has created a down-home market marvel through her farm and food.
One Melon at a Time
Summers spent shucking corn and bagging cantaloupes at a produce market in Kannapolis left their mark in memory and wisdom.