Photo courtesy of http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=3058 The Triangle now has its first solar farm! Strata Solar, based in Chapel Hill, finished its 43-acre solar panel farm in Rougement last week, which will create enough power for 750 homes. What is a solar farm? The idea is simple. Build a large array of solar panels and create energy […]
Welcome to TLC’s summer blog series, “Local Food and Farmers’ Markets!” Each week we will take a closer look at local farms, farmers’ markets, and innovative food systems around the Triangle. This week features the Durham Farmers’ Market. Located at 501 Foster Street, the Durham Farmers’ Market was founded in 1998 and has grown to […]
The Nature Conservancy has teamed up with Disney to disseminate a global survey to parents asking about the importance of nature to kids around the world. The results and the reality are surprising. What’s not surprising is the level of importance parents place on nature for their kids. 82% see “spending time in nature as […]
Right after I graduated from college, I moved to Washington, DC for a year. I lived in a great neighborhood with cool restaurants and easy metro access, but there was one problem. The closest grocery store was about two miles away, and it was nowhere near a metro. Like many Washington residents I had no […]
Picture a traditional city rooftop. Most of us would envision a gray, concrete, rather drab urban environment. Ben Flanner, head farmer and president of Brooklyn Grange, on the other hand, sees a farming opportunity. As part of a movement that has spread around the world, Flanner and his colleagues are taking the idea of a […]
Spend four hours in the Triangle with our newest recommended weekend itinerary! 10 a.m. Arrive at the Lower Haw River State Natural Area, 502-592 Bynum Rd, Pittsboro. With 1,022 acres on either side of the river itself, the natural area contains both hiking and paddling opportunities. With help from TLC, in 2001 this tract of […]
It's the time of year when our Farmers Markets hold longer hours, and the variety of produce becomes increasingly diverse after a long winter of comforting root crops. There's no better time to taste the delicate leaves of spring salad greens — from romaine to butterhead to leafy varietals — or bite into a crisp […]
Photo by Charlene Wu A few weeks ago, I was trooping through some local woods on the look-out for herpetofauna (snakes, lizards, salamanders, and frogs) for my graduate Wildlife Surveys course. As part of our search, we would carefully lift up wooden boards and tin pieces in the hopes that creatures would be hiding underneath. […]
Spend three hours in the Triangle with our newest recommended weekend itinerary! 10 a.m. Arrive at Historic Yates Mill County Park, 4620 Lake Wheeler Road, Raleigh. This park features the only historically preserved mill in Wake County, as well as a 174-acre wildlife refuge and an environmental visitors’ center. While the mill is currently under […]
When we picture the Piedmont region of North Carolina today, many of us envision forests dominated by pine or smaller hardwoods. However, two of North Carolina’s historic natural ecosystems have all but disappeared by today's 21st century: the old-growth, bottomland forest and the Piedmont prairie from which the region earned its name. “I would have […]
