From a grape I’d never heard of to something I’m keen to slather on a biscuit.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Less showy than the leaves that are just beginning to change color, the ripening of scuppernongs and muscadines provides a more subtle signal of the arrival of fall. Take a walk along a country road ...

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 ...

Every state has a state fruit, but few have such historical depth as the scuppernong. While it's known as the state fruit of North Carolina, it can be found far and wide. At the northern end of ...

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 ...

Even Harper Lee even wrote about scuppernong grapes. So what exactly are they? Fact checked by Jillian Dara Scupper-what? Repeat after me: "Scup-per-nong." Don't forget that final "n"—the word rhymes ...