After two climate-decimated harvests, southern peach farmers wonder how to regroup
Warmer winters, late freezes and wildly variable rainfall have formed a perfect storm to wreck the one of the region’s favorite fruits
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Warmer winters, late freezes and wildly variable rainfall have formed a perfect storm to wreck the one of the region’s favorite fruits
McBEE - Several years ago, a newspaper writer named John Davis searched for the words to describe how toxic and hard-fought the politics in this town had become. It was 2009, and McBee had been fighting for the better part of a decade over who …
To describe what was happening in McBee, a crossroads town midway between Charlotte and Florence, these were the words: “Blood feud.”
McBee’s story spans 16 lawsuits and investigations by five state and federal agencies. It’s a case study of how communities lose faith in institutions and how their public life frays
While other farms around the American Southeast are seeing fewer peaches, McLeod Farms’ peach crop thrived.