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Antonyo Deep by be Famous
by Appalachian Sustainable Agricu
Growing Local is a weekly audio series about local food and farms in the Southern Appalachians. It airs during Morning Edition on WNCW 88.7 each Monday at 8:50 a.m. Produced by ASAP, the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project.
Episodes
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A Lifelong Farming Dream Made Real
Nicole Coston was inspired to start Bearwallow Valley Farms in Henderson County, North Carolina because of her grandmother’s perseverance during the Great Depression.
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The Joys and Challenges of Starting a New Farm
What does it take to start a farm in Western North Carolina? Henry Payne of Five Pine Farm in Yancey County shares his story.
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Chef Finds Inspiration at Winter Farmers Market
Come along to a winter farmers market with Graham House, executive chef at Sovereign Remedies in Asheville, North Carolina. Go inside the mind of a chef as he picks out local produce and crafts a menu back at the restaurant.
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Winter Knowledge Brings Spring Growth
Have you always wanted to start a garden or explore new vegetables at the farmers market? Find local food and farm educational programs on ASAP’s fromhere.org events calendar.
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“I Want to Share My Food With Everyone”
Meet Suzy Phillips, owner of Gypsy Queen Cuisine, and hear how she uses local lamb to share stories about growing up in Lebanon.
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Join a CSA For Fun and Flavor
What’s it like to join a CSA? Meet four CSA members and learn about their experiences with Community Supported Agriculture.
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CSA Season is Almost Here!
Looking forward to an abundance of fruits and veggies this year? CSAs bring that bounty to your kitchen each week. Find out why the Community Supported Agriculture model supports farmers and healthy eating.
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Growing Tea Closer to Home
Pickens, South Carolina is a surprising place to find a tea farm, but Table Rock Tea Company is bucking international trends by growing tea in the Southern Appalachians.
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Microgreens Bring Macro Growth
Microgreens are tiny edible plants produced from vegetable and herb seeds. Find out why Sleight Family Farm decided to grow microgreens at their farm in Old Fort, North Carolina.
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Community Stories: Why Local Food Inspires Us
North Asheville residents Aimee Ellingsen and Chuck Krekelberg stopped by ASAP’s story booth to talk about how their family embraces local food.
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Looking Back on 10 Years of Farming
Sara Jane Davis co-founded A Way of Life Farm in 2009 and it’s been an exciting ride ever since. She talks about the childhood garden that sparked her love of growing, and shares her vision for the next 10 years on her farm in Rutherford County, North Carolina.
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Shop Local at Holiday Markets
Farmers markets are full of gifts this time of year. We tagged along as an Asheville local and her friend from New York City went shopping at Asheville City Market. Hear their conversations with farmers and craftspeople as they pick out holiday presents.
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Stock Up on Local Sweet Potatoes
Buying winter produce like sweet potatoes in bulk means there’s always something local in the pantry. Meet a sweet potato farmer from Fairview, North Carolina and find out why she loves this cool weather staple.
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Community Stories - Why I Appreciate Farmers
On any given Saturday, you’ll find Asheville resident Julie Montanea at the farmers market. She says it perks her up to see the beautiful food and chat with farmers. She stopped by ASAP’s story booth to talk about why she supports local food.
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Hmong Farmers Escape Laos and Find Safety in WNC
Tou and Chue Lee planted their rice fields in early spring at Lee’s One Fortune Farm in Western North Carolina. Now it’s the end of the growing season and finally time to harvest. For the most part it’s a joyous season, but this time of year also brings back memories of their struggle to escape…
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Harvesting Rice at Lee’s One Fortune Farm
Hear how rice is harvested at Lee's One Fortune Farm and learn why this crop is important to the Hmong community in Western North Carolina.
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Autumn Adventures at Darnell Farms
Take an audio tour of Darnell Farms in Bryson City, North Carolina and meet the extraordinary family who created this agritourism destination.
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Community Stories: Why I Teach My Kids to Love Local
We wanted to know what motivates people to eat local, so we invited community members to share their stories at ASAP's Local Food Experience event. Debbie from Asheville, North Carolina talks about teaching her kids to love local food.
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The Evolution of M&M Berry Farm
Meet four generations of the Pack family and take a walk through their blackberry bushes at M& M Berry Farm in Henderson County, North Carolina.
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Lewis Creek Farm Branches Out into Cider Apples
The local food system is getting a boost from a new partnership between Lewis Creek Farm and Noble Cider. Go on an audio tour of their orchards and learn how local apples inspired a farmer and a hard cider maker to work together.
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Holt Orchards Keeps the Family Dream Alive
What happens to a family farm when tragedy strikes? Hear how a brother and sister came together to preserve their step-father's legacy and save Holt Orchards.
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Making Healthy Food More Accessible
Though most of us don’t eat our recommended daily fruits and vegetables, some people face the additional challenge of eating healthy on a budget. Hear how healthcare professionals addressed this issue at ASAP’s Healthy Eating in Practice conference.
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Putting Healthy Eating into Practice
This week we’re in Asheville, North Carolina for ASAP’s Healthy Eating in Practice conference. Hear a hands-on cooking class and learn why health care professionals from across the country came here to learn about food, farms, and health.
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Emily Patrick Starts a Farm from Scratch
In the final episode of our Women in Agriculture series, we drive up to Madison County, North Carolina to meet Emily Patrick of Carolina Flowers.
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Andrea DuVall Connects Farmers with Customers
This week in our Women in Agriculture series, we get to know a business owner who connects local farms with customers throughout the region. Andrea DuVall, co-owner of Mother Earth Produce, is an important link in the local food chain, so we stopped at her warehouse in Asheville, North Carolina…
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Cassandra Bare Grows Food by the Tractor Trailer Load
Women are at the forefront of a revolution in how food is grown for local markets. In the coming weeks, we will profile three leaders in the local food system, starting with Cassandra Bare who grows produce on nearly 300 acres at Harvest Farm in Valle Crucis, North Carolina.
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Mills River Creamery Returns to its Roots
Bradley Johnston is a third-generation farmer whose family has seen dramatic changes in the local dairy industry since his grandfather started selling milk directly to the public in 1917. Take an audio trip to Mills River Creamery’s milking parlor to learn why Johnston is looking to the past to...
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Connecting Farmworkers with Healthcare
Our food supply depends on farmworkers. The physically demanding job of planting, harvesting, and processing food puts farmworkers at risk for acute injury and chronic disease, yet they often have limited access to healthcare. Learn how Vecinos, a nonprofit organization in Western North Carolina,...
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Roots of Health
It might seem like a doctor’s office is the opposite of a farm. Think of a sterile exam room filled with medical equipment—a place where dirt is definitely not welcome. But for physician Dr. Daphne Miller, what happens in the exam room is directly linked to agriculture, from the microbes in the...
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Transforming City Land into a Farm
When you visit Balsam Garden’s farm in East Asheville you can hear the sounds of birds overhead, but also the rush of a major highway that’s hidden behind a row of trees. That juxtaposition reflects the versatility of this land—and an unusual partnership between local farmers and the City of...
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How Grocery Stores Embrace Local Food
Ever wondered how a tomato gets from the field to a grocery store shelf? Take a behind-the-scenes trip to the Ingles Markets distribution center, then find out why local farmer William Shelton grows summer produce for the grocery chain.
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Pick Berries Straight from the Field
There’s a little bit of magic in a fresh-picked blueberry—sweet and still warm from the sun. Hear why farmers from Perry’s Berries in Morganton, North Carolina invite the community to pick berries on their farm. Learn how to visit them and other u-pick farms at www.appalachiangrown.org
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Come Along to Farm Camp!
Have you ever been to summer camp with a pig named Doughnut? Farm camps are becoming popular across the country, especially in Western North Carolina. Hear a gaggle of kids pick berries, taste edible flowers, and learn how to feed the pigs at Franny’s Farm Camp in Leicester.
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A Farm Tour Audio Adventure
More than 1,000 people visited local farms on ASAP’s Farm Tour in June, and the sounds of farms at work were heard throughout Western North Carolina. Listen to behind-the-scenes tours of Smoking J’s Fiery Foods, L.O.T.U.S. Urban Farm, and Venezia Dream Farm Alpacas. Then go to Mills River…
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Making Healthy Eating Common Practice
Doctors, researchers, and healthcare professionals are working to change the culture of healthcare by focusing on preventing diseases as well as treating them. Leaders in the field will gather in Asheville August 26-29 for a new conference called Healthy Eating in Practice. Learn more and…
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Meet the Bradley Family on Farm Tour
Carolyn Bradley is a fifth generation farmer with a passion for agriculture. Visit her 130-acre farm on ASAP’s Farm Tour and learn how Carolyn and her husband Mike raise grassfed beef. Tickets: asapconnections.org/events/asaps-farm-tour
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How to Support Flooded Farms
“This is probably going to be the hardest year for us, but we’re going to keep it going for the kids and for the community,” says Alyssa Moreno of SMM Farms in Hayesville. Hear how farmers are recovering from the floods that raged through Western North Carolina this spring, and learn how to…
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Meet Bison and Watusi Cattle on Farm Tour
Want to feed a bison and see a herd of horned cattle up close? Visit Dr. King’s Farms on ASAP’s Farm Tour on June 23 and 24, 2018. In this week’s episode, Dr. Frank King talks about the exotic animals that roam his farmland beneath the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Teenagers Teach Kids How to Love Local Food
Come along on a farm to school road trip as high schoolers from Burke County, North Carolina lead a local strawberry taste test with kids from Hillcrest Elementary School.
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From Computer Desks to Corn Fields
During the dot com boom of the 1990s, Julie Mansfield and Carl Evans were software engineers who dreamed of starting a farm. At first they juggled their corporate careers and their agricultural aspirations, but soon realized that farming couldn’t be a weekend job. Hear how they founded Mountain...
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Why I Support Local Food
Rebecca Collins and Steven Kinsella are passionate about eating local and improving the food system. We caught up with them at ASAP’s Local Food Experience to talk about why they support local farms and culinary culture in the Southern Appalachians.
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Meet Your Farmers: The Moreno Family
The Moreno family’s farming roots stretch back to Mexico where Salvador Moreno Senior herded goats through the desert. His son, Salvador Moreno Junior, shares the story of how they started SMM Farms and became an integral part of the Hayesville, North Carolina community.
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Musician Returns to Tennessee Farming Roots
Playing music after supper with family and neighbors is an Appalachian tradition. For farmer and musician Barry Bales, it was the beginning of his Grammy Award-winning career. Hear how the hills of Tennessee lured him back to the family farm, and listen to an original song about his journey that…
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First Day of Market Festivities
Come along to the opening day of the outdoor Asheville City Market. Meet farmers, customers, and vendors as they kick off the outdoor market season!
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From Academia to Farming
Robert Russell once spent his days in the hallowed halls of universities, but now you’re more likely to find him fixing up an old barn. He’s starting French Broad Creamery in Leicester, North Carolina and will sell fresh chèvre and aged goat cheeses in the near future. Listen to the first chapter...
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A Sweet Toast to Spring Markets
The outdoor Asheville City Market starts on April 7, 2018 and now you can sip samples of mead while you shop. Learn about local mead maker Wehrloom Honey and how owner Aron Wehr is expanding his reach by vending at Asheville City Market for the first time.
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Growing Tea Closer to Home
Much of the tea sold in the U.S. travels thousands of miles before it’s served over ice on the back porch. Table Rock Tea Company is growing a local alternative, and working with other farmers to help Pickens, South Carolina become a hot spot of tea farming.
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Meet the Mountain Popcorn Girls
Wendy Painter and Amanda Gentry are trying something new with their farm business, Mountain Popcorn Girls. Find out how neighbors have reacted to seeing popcorn on their fifth generation farm, and why home-grown popcorn brings back memories for their customers.
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Eat Local All Season with a CSA
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a great way to join the local food movement. Listen as we follow a farmer and community member through the seasons to hear how CSAs impact their lives. ASAP’s 2018 CSA Fair is Thursday, March 15th at New Belgium Brewing Company in Asheville, North…
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Seeds for Spring
It’s time to pick out seeds for spring, but which ones are right for your garden? Learn about regionally adapted seeds from the folks at Sow True Seed in Asheville, and check out other seed companies like Southern Exposure Seed Exchange.
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Growing Local is a weekly audio series about local food and farms in the Southern Appalachians. It airs during Morning Edition on WNCW 88.7 each Monday at 8:50 a.m. Produced by ASAP, the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project.
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