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Pleasant Living

Keia Mastrianni

Farm life and rural living from a small farm in Western North Carolina. Essays, recipes, seasonal snapshots, and a truthful peek into the lives of two people trying to build something honest.

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What is a Fish Pickin'?

This Sunday, we host our favorite springtime event of the season— The Old North Farm Fish Pickin’. It’s our fifth year hosting this epic farm party, a joyful outdoor feast with friends, fresh North Carolina seafood, music, and a ridiculous...

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INTERCONNECTIONS: Broad River Community Market

Introducing Interconnections, a new section where we share about the good people in our food systems universe. These are the people in our community, immediate and extended, doing their part to support the building of a better world. The ru...

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2025 Year in Review

The year began with news of the incoming funding freeze on January 28, a promise touted by the current administration as a way to cut the fat while millions of people who rely on federally funded food programs wrestled with the forthcoming...

5 months ago
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Spring, Summer, Seasons

I wanted to write about the springtime and how the farm came alive again after a long stretch of feeling so heavy and hollow and how a recovery grant allowed us to make a way out of no way. We applied for the second round of Helene recovery...

9 months ago
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A Hard Freeze

I’m pacing the living room listening to a frustrated farmer on the other end of the phone line. The exasperated voice belongs to Kim Shaw of Small City Farm. I called her to talk about the recent federal funding freeze.

Like our farm, Shaw...

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