Bean String Ballad Sing Online Today
LENOIR, N.C. — The Song to Seed Farm is having a live concert via Zoom and Facebook LIVE today at 4 p.m. as it celebrates traditional foodways and unaccompanied ballad […]
Category Archives: ecology
Pipeline Fighters and Water Protectors Recognized With Unity Banner
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League Honors ACP and MVP Opponents BENT MOUNTAIN, Va. — The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL), its chapters and allies presented a Unity Banner to […]
Dominion and Duke Abandon the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
What does it mean for our water? By Kathleen Tyner and Autumn Crowe Editor’s note: This article was first published by West Virginia Rivers on July 7, 2020. This is […]
‘Pray and Delay’ v. Dominion, Duke
Opponents force energy giants to wave the white flag on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline By Michael M. Barrick ‘Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes […]
The Deceived ‘god’
A poem dedicated to Dominion Resources By Michael M. Barrick Note: This poem is dedicated to Dominion Resources. Originally published in January 2015, I am re-publishing it today to commemorate […]
Earth Day Wisdom from a West Virginia Teenager
JUNIOR AT POCAHONTAS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL WINS EIGHT RIVERS COUNCIL ESSAY CONTEST Editor’s note: Since it is the youngest among us that have the most to lose if we do […]
The First Earth Day
It was a big deal to me then and still is I celebrated the first Earth Day — April 22, 1970 — while an eighth-grader at St. Mary’s Catholic School […]
Hemp Finds a Home
A hempcrete house high in the mountains of West Virginia demonstrates that industrial hemp is a viable alternative for homebuilders Note: This article was originally published in the Spring 2020 […]
N.C. Hemp Farmers Face Uncertain Year
Proposed federal changes have sown confusion Note: This article was originally published in the Spring 2020 edition of Appalachian Voices. This is part two of a three-part story. Parts 1 […]
Betting the Farm on a “Wild West” Hemp Economy in Appalachia
Ever-changing laws and regulations, a saturated CBD market and high operating costs are stressing the region’s industrial hemp farmers Kris Gupton and his wife Heather Bryant have grown hemp in […]
