Plant Lore – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

William Ritter

William Ritter finds fascination in the traditional music and foodways, particularly from his area in...

Todd Elliott is a champion fiddler, storyteller, and performing artist from Rutherford County, NC, who...

Forty years ago, Henderson County general store owner J. H. Stepp decided to leave the...

Karen Taylor's deep knowledge of the flora of Western North Carolina comes from a lifetime...

(February 20, 1914 – June 29, 2007) Mary Jane Queen lived in the Caney Fork...

Sisters Joan and Irene Moser follow in the footsteps of Bascom Lamar Lunsford, and of...

Lesa Postell remembers that during her childhood in Jackson County, "Everything was done as a...

Growing up in Haywood County, David Burnette was drawn to the old ways that he...

Appalachian Homestead Farm and Preserve (AAHP) is a nonprofit cultural organization that preserves the 19th-century...

The Smoky Mountain Native Plants Association (SMNPA) is a group of farmers, wildcrafters, naturalists, and...

"My great-great grandma, my great-grandma, and my grandma were all herb women, called 'yarb women'"...

Ila Hatter was born into a family of resourceful people. Her mother and grandmother, she...