Cultivating Community With the NC Alternative Crops & Organics Program

two people harvesting bright yellow flowers from rows of plants in a field
Harvesting Juhua trials in western North Carolina.

11/10/2025 - Our latest newsletter is out and it is full of beautiful photos and stories of what our team has been up to lately. Read about our two interns, the  juhua (菊花) (Chrysanthemum morifolium) flower harvest and processing, our truffle microscopy class in Raleigh, our autumn woodland botanical activities, where our team has been giving presentations, and about four upcoming events. Here's the link:

November Newsletter 

Students learning to identify truffles by examining root tips of host plants under the microscope in the Truffle Microscopy Workshop.