Heritage Farm in Huntington, WV is celebrating America's 250th anniversary by allowing people to experience what life was ...

A reclaimed coal mine might not be the ideal place to grow vegetables, but the terrain didn’t stop Fritz Boettner from digging in. The director of Sprouting Farms has been working to revitalize the ...

Although Michelle Pridgen knew black cohosh was growing on the forested acreage of her Windy Hill Farm in western Virginia, she never considered adding it to the list of crops she harvests—until a ...

BRISTOL, Tenn. (WJHL) — The 2023 Appalachian Farm Expo kicked off Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway (BMS). Along with farming equipment and live animals, attendees can experience live music, craft ...

Nearly $500,000 from an initiative of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) will fund the start of a project to accelerate Appalachia’s forest farming industry. Virginia Tech will work with ...

Emily Cataneo is a journalist and fiction writer whose work has been published in Slate, NPR, the Boston Globe, and Atlas Obscura, among other publications. This story originally featured on Undark.

Raising cricket crops, studying musk oxen and air pollution in the Appalachian mountains. Bitwater Farms grows crickets instead of vegetables, scientists dress like grizzly bears to study musk oxen in ...

Appalachia is globally recognized as a key supplier of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) with growing demand for its resources. Nearly half of the woodland medicinal species in the global ...

GRAY, TN (WJHL) – Do you love crafts, quilts, tractors and antiques? Young and old from all over the region are invited to take part in 24th Annual Appalachian Antique Farm and Tractor Show at the ...

A jury convicted a woman of failure to obtain necessary veterinary care but acquitted her of felony animal cruelty following the suffocation death of a cat. Regional first responders aid in Greene and ...

HUNTINGTON — The Heritage Farm Museum and Village recently took the month of November off after a summer of visitors taking in their animal-filled nature center, Appalachian village and Adventure Park ...