What crops does Carolina grow?

The Lakota squash is a delicious winter squash that can add to any fall menu. Once mature, the nutty fine-grained flesh is popular for baking, and the seeds are a tasty snack.  This pear-shaped squash has a beautiful orange rind with green streaks, which makes it a delightful fall decoration.  This plant can be huge, with each plant requiring a bare minimum of 4-6 feet of space in the garden.  Despite it being a form of winter squash, you will need to harvest before the first fall fr

By Bethany Hayes One of the primary purposes of vegetable gardening is to stock up on food that you don’t need to buy from the store. However, you don’t want to spend all day throughout the summer canning, fermenting, and dehydrating. That’s why you need to grow some vegetables for long-term storage. Years and years ago, our ancestors didn’t have access to these modern-day preservation methods, but they understood that some vegetables, stored in the right c

My neighbor gave me some cucumber starts this year. She got them from a friend of a friend until no one had any idea what variety they were. Even though I have had a veggie garden for years, I had never actually grown cucumbers. Really! So I plunked them in the garden and surprise! They were rapaciously producing spiny cucumbers. Well, I’d never seen spines on cucumbers since I usually get those smooth, consumer-ready grocery store cukes. So why did my cucumbers get pric

“The Paramus Police Department responded to calls of a disorderly goat headbutting a door,” reads an update on the Paramus, New Jersey, Police Department Facebook page. It is accompanied by a picture of said goat, which turns out to be small, white and adorable. On Saturday evening, a concerned Paramus citizen called the police to report a goat-related bashing of their front door. The goat turned and ran, but was captured by a noble team of three Paramus Police