Farm, Forage, Feast: High Country Foodways

Have you ever thought about where your food comes from? Or how honey is made? Or all the varieties of apples there are? Or what it really takes to raise pigs? Have you thought about all the stories and conversations that warm the soul as you sit around the dinner table and pass the plate?

Farm. Forage. Feast. examines the intersection of cultures, economies, education, and the environment relating to the production and consumption of food in the High Country of North Carolina through lenses of oral histories, photography, and local history.  For the purpose of this exhibition, the High Country is defined as Watauga, Ashe, and Avery counties, although our interview subjects live and work primarily in Watauga and Ashe counties

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Images of the exhibit

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Exhibit Subjects

Melinda Brown

Image Credit: “Melinda Brown” Ashley Warren, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Bill Moretz

Image Credit: “Bill Moretz” Ashley Warren, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

James Wilkes

Image Credit: “James Wilkes” Ashley Warren, 2018. Courtesy of the Artist.

Alek Schober

Image Credit: “Smells LIke Apricots” Ashley Warren, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Cecil and Julie Gurganus

Image Credit: “Skimming the Top” Ashley Warren, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Cheek Dairy

Image Credit: “The Cheek Boys” Ashley Warren, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Debbie Bauer

Image Credit: “Debbie Bauer” Ashley Warren, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Renne Baughman

Image Credit: “Renne Baughman” Ashley Warren, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.