Ah, the scuppernong grape. It's the stuff of Southern legend, I'm told. When I first stumbled across this muscadine while researching the South's best u-pick farms, I wondered what on earth. The name ...

The N.C. Senate has slowed the N.C. House's ill-advised rush to designate the strawberry as the Official State Fruit. Even more gratifying, the Senate has proposed a clearly superior alternative: the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bowl of scuppernong grapes - Tanya Consaul Photography/Shutterstock If you live in the Midwest ...

Scupper-what? Repeat after me: "Scup-per-nong." Don't forget that final "n"—the word rhymes with "song," not "frog." Southerners will know scuppernong grapes by their greenish-golden skin, sweet ...

For that day forward, I looked forward to stopping to visit with Ruth Overstreet, who built her own house and with an upstairs for her weaving loom. And she grew trees of most every kind and enjoyed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ah, the scuppernong. I've heard it's the stuff of Southern legend, being, as I am, a born-and-raised Californian, Bostonian by ...