Food & Farms Editor
Beat: With Kids, Things to Do, Orchards & Farms
Nadine covers the orchard rows, the cider house, the tasting rooms and the kitchens on Main Street. She tracks what is actually ripe rather than what a brochure printed in spring, tells you which weekend the u-pick blocks will be shoulder to shoulder, and would rather warn you a kitchen is small than let you turn up with six people.
2 guides · 1 news post
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Long-form
Reported guides to Blue Ridge, each with its own publication and last-updated date.
A family orchard since 1943, over forty apple varieties, and the busiest car park in Fannin County by lunchtime in October. What is ripe when, and when to turn up.
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The train is perfect at four and hard work at two. The orchard is a triumph at nine in the morning and a disaster at one. A family guide organised by age rather than by attraction.
6 min read
Photograph: Unsplash
News desk
Shorter, dated pieces about what is changing in Blue Ridge.
How this was written. News published under Nadine Colquitt's byline was drafted by machine from primary sources — operator notices, government and municipal releases, published schedules — and every factual claim in it was matched to one of those sources before it published. A Blue Ridge Guide editor can change or pull any of it. Our editorial standards.
U-pick is a crop, not an opening time. A family arriving for apples in early August finds peaches, and one arriving for strawberries in July finds nothing.
Photograph: Unsplash