For two centuries, tobacco was king in the Carolinas. Alongside textiles, it ruled the agricultural industry, but as the production of these items slowly moved overseas or was reduced significantly, ...

I sat down to write a simple column about eating scuppernongs at my Granddad’s when I was in elementary school, and I found I was digging into a vast and complicated subject. The easy part of the ...

It’s vine time as muscadines and scuppernongs are ripening now. These sour-skinned, but spicy-sweet on the inside native grapes, often referred to as the “Grapes of the South,” are like rutabagas and ...

Fourth in a series aboutNorth Florida foods. No North Florida food has a more colorful name than the scuppernong grape — nor requires more nuance to enjoy. A very firm green or bronze grape, the ...

Scuppernong season is coming, and I’m looking forward to picking some grapes. For the last couple of years, I was unable to pick at Lake Apshawa Farm & Nursery, the Clermont vinery where I usually ...

SMYRNA -- Filbert may have its peaches and McConnells its dairy farms, but David McFalls hopes to make a name for Smyrna with a more unconventional commodity. Scuppernongs. That's right, scuppernongs ...

Muscadines are an indigenous wild grape native to the Southeast. Typically, the gold green ones are referred to as scuppernongs, and the dark purple are known as muscadines. Scuppernongs are actually ...

There's problem, though. Many people have a hard time getting past the thick skin and bitter seeds of the muscadine. Not totally unexpected for a fruit that takes its name from the smell of a male ...

At the northern end of Roanoke Island, you can find the Mother Vine covering over half an acre of land. It's over 400 years old and is renowned for producing North Carolina’s state fruit - the ...

Scuppernongs are similar to grapes, except they have a tough skin that is easy to separate from the inner flesh. They taste like grape juice or grape jelly - that sweet, artificial grape flavor we're ...