Agriculture

There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.

The CROPS Project, funded by the National Science Foundation, will build a 42-county Ag Tech Corridor with the help of several universities across North Carolina.

The Biden administration hopes changes to farming can help achieve its climate agenda. The Department of Agriculture has an additional goal: improving service to Black and other underserved farmers.

A mentorship program in Charlotte is working to empower and teach life skills to Black youth through agriculture while addressing community issues in one of Charlotte’s low-income Corridors of Opportunity.

What if you came up with a way to help save the planet, but you were barred from using it? That's how a Boone inventor describes his 25-year fight to use the patented industrial composting system he devised in the 1970s.

Two human-driven trends are coming together to create new environmental worries in North Carolina. The first is the growing number of big hog and poultry farms, known as "concentrated animal feeding operations," or CAFOs. The other is climate change, which brings rising sea levels and more intense storms and flooding.Together, they're a recipe for trouble, according to a recent study by the Environmental Working Group.

A youth-led program called Seeds for Change was started six years ago to tackle food insecurity in the Charlotte West Boulevard neighborhood. The group provides access to fresh local foods for area residents.

Rising sea levels, salt water intrusion and more intense storms due to climate change are forcing farmers in eastern North Carolina to fight back and even take some fields out of production. WFAE climate reporter David Boraks and Climate Central's John Upton visited Hyde County on the Pamlico Sound and have this report.

April typically heralds the opening of farmers markets in much of North Carolina and the start of the tourist season, which spurs an infusion of fresh…

When fall arrived this year, it didn't make its entrance with crispy air and cooling temperatures. In fact, the temperature around here was downright…