Author: Meredith Sabye

Katie Murray’s office sits behind the loading dock of an old mill on the Eno River, in the back on the lower level. To get there, you have to bump down a steep, rough incline. You also have to make sure you don’t turn in six feet too soon or you’ll wind up in the… Continue reading Arts and Farmers

Whenever anyone familiar with this general part of North Carolina asks me where it is I live in Orange County, I have learned to reply, “Do you know where the ice cream shop is?” They always do.             The Maple View Farm Ice Cream Shop is a regional legend, a Nutter family enterprise that was… Continue reading Roger That

Quick, what’s the definition of the word Monoculture? Is it: A.     A country with only one ethnic group? B.     A lab sample with only one pathogen, or C.     A field planted in only one crop? If you said “C” you win the prize, at least for this column. “Mono” of course, means “one,” and the… Continue reading Monoculture