High country harvest: a farm fresh tour of the NC highlands.(DEPT. > buying local)

New Life Journal | September 1, 2005| | Copyright

It's a sunny Summer Saturday at Altapass Orchard just off the Blue Ridge Parkway in the High Country of Western North Carolina. Judy Carson puts chairs in rows, anticipating the audience for the bluegrass, gospel, country, and storytelling performers to come. Husband Bill Carson hitches up the hay wagon, preparing to take visitors through the working orchard, which at its peak shipped 125,000 bushels per year of Grimes Goldens, Stayman Winesaps, and others.

Out under the picnic shelter in the lunch wagon, the beans simmer, cooked thick with ham hock and served with ...

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