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Projects
Growing an Outdoor Generation
People of color are still significantly underrepresented in environmental and natural-based careers and activities. Our Growing an Outdoor Generational...

Diversity Nurtures Achievements Community Youth Center
Located in Duplin County, an economically- and environmentally-distressed rural area, Diversity Nurtures Achievements Community Youth Center (DNA) provides year-round,...

Durham Turns a Railway into a Greenway
Built in the 1890s as a rail spur to downtown tobacco facilities, the Durham Belt Line extends along the...

Community Food Sovereignty
Conservation of our land and water resources is inextricably tied to food production and the health of people. If...

Hand-Built in Asheville
Over two decades ago, entrepreneur Lang Hornthal built his first log bed with a friend, sold it at a...

Lavender Helps a Family Farm Bloom
Norma DeCamp Burns wants to keep her North Carolina family farm from disappearing. In the Tar Heel state, that’s...

Beef And Pork With A Local Flavor
Co-founders Tina Prevatte and Jennifer Curtis sought to build a sustainable food system that benefited their own community and...

Benefiting Land, Livestock And The Bottom Line
James Joyner, 60, grew up on the same 100 acre plot of land since childhood. For over 68 years,...

A Simply Natural Approach to Dairy
Simply Natural Creamery and Dairy Farm is a testament to Neil Moye’s willingness to innovate and diversify beyond tobacco...

Annie's: Baking in Benefits in Asheville
When Joe and Annie Ritota first met, Joe was a fourth generation baker of artisan bread and Annie owned a...

Gypsy Queen Cuisine
Suzy Phillips could be credited with introducing the food truck to Asheville. When she moved to the area from...

Earthseed Land Cooperative
The eight co-founders of Earthseed Land Cooperative (ELC) have a vision: to use land to support the collective health,...

SolFarm Solar Company
SolFarm Solar Company, based in Asheville, North Carolina, provides consultation and installation services for solar energy systems. The company...

Earning More per Acre with Grain Bins
Curtis Branch grows wheat, soybeans and corn on his Murfreesboro, North Carolina farm, a 240-acre property that has been in...

Misty Mountain Threadworks
Misty Mountain Threadworks was founded on the belief that it could make the finest climbing harnesses in the world, and...

Roanoke River Partners
Celebrating Ecotourism and Regional Heritage
Roanoke River Partners is a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and promoting the natural, cultural and...

Black Mountains
Throughout 2016, the North Carolina state park system will celebrate its centennial. The system began in 1916 with the...

Green Rural Redevelopment Organization
Henry Crews and Ardis Crews are taking a smart approach to revitalizing blighted neighborhoods in their small town of...

Mother Earth Produce
Despite being surrounded by agriculture, Andrea and Graham Duvall realized that many people in Western North Carolina did not...

FLS Energy: Clean Energy, High Performance
Michael Shor, Dale Freudenberger and Hardy LeGwin had a vision—to make solar energy mainstream. They roughed out a business...

Reclaiming the Coharie River
The Coharie River has long served as the lifeblood of the Coharie tribal community and its ancestors. The river...

A Future for Good Hope Farm in Cary, North Carolina
Good Hope Farm is an historic farmstead situated within a half mile of 3,500 residents of Cary, North Carolina....

Trees NC
When Trees NC founder Owen George relocated from California back to his hometown of Asheboro, North Carolina, he was troubled by...

Preserving the ‘Peace of Land’ in North Carolina’s Piedmont
Over 90 acres of the Crossnore School & Children’s Home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was beautiful, urban farmland. Not...

Southeast Coast Saltwater Paddling Trail
Paddlers have a great new website for navigating the Southeast Coast Saltwater Paddling Trail (SECT). This extensive trail allows for...

Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
The Appalachian Mountains unfold between Tennessee and North Carolina in rugged land that beckons with bird calls, breathtaking views...
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Striving for Thriving: Balancing Nature and Commerce in Transylvania County
Tucked among the rolling hills and waterfalls of Pisgah National Forest, Dupont State Forest, and many other recreational destinations,...

Palmetto-Peartree Preserve
The Conservation Fund established the 10,000-acre Palmetto-Peartree Preserve in 1999 with funding from the North Carolina Department of Transportation....

Pisgah National Forest
Rushing waterfalls and melodious birdcalls lift the deep quiet of Pisgah National Forest in the Appalachian Mountains.
In 2009, we...

New River Initiative
The New River connects communities in 21 rural counties across three states (North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia) in southern...