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Helga and Tim MacAller own Four Leaf Farm in Rougemont and grow an unusual crop for North Carolina. The MacAller’s grow kiwi and supply local restaurants and farmers market with the fruit. Due to Hurricane Sandy and colder weather, the crop has not been good this year. The MacAller’s experiences growing the fruit are detailed.
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Leonard and Nannie Mae Jordan built and owned Jordan’s Fruit and Produce Market in 1960 as an open-air curb market on South Cannon Boulevard in Kannapolis. The market boasted the freshest collection of cantaloupes, white cucumbers, and sweet corn in the Carolinas. In this article, the author describes her memories of the family farmer’s market.
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The Henderson County Cooperative Extension has been offering a volunteer program for the care and cultivation of fruit trees for the past 25 years, and is the only program in the US to do so.