Farmer Joey Clawson (left) and extension agent Eddy Labus discuss fraser firs at Panoramic View Christmas Tree Farm in Watauga County, outside Boone.

Farmer Joey Clawson (left) and extension agent Eddy Labus discuss fraser firs at Panoramic View Christmas Tree Farm in Watauga County, outside Boone.

Farmer Joey Clawson (left) and extension agent Eddy Labus discuss fraser firs at Panoramic View Christmas Tree Farm in Watauga County, outside Boone.

Farmer Joey Clawson (left) and extension agent Eddy Labus discuss fraser firs at Panoramic View Christmas Tree Farm in Watauga County, outside Boone.

Farmer Joey Clawson (left) and extension agent Eddy Labus discuss fraser firs at Panoramic View Christmas Tree Farm in Watauga County, outside Boone.

Farmer Joey Clawson (left) and extension agent Eddy Labus discuss fraser firs at Panoramic View Christmas Tree Farm in Watauga County, outside Boone.

Farmer Joey Clawson (left) and extension agent Eddy Labus discuss fraser firs at Panoramic View Christmas Tree Farm in Watauga County, outside Boone.

Fraser fir needles one a tree at Panoramic View Christmas Tree Farm in Watauga County, outside Boone.

Cattle on Joey Clawson's Watauga County farm outside Boone.

Cattle on Joey Clawson's Watauga County farm outside Boone.

Panoramic View Christmas Tree Farm in Watauga County, outside Boone.

Panoramic View Christmas Tree Farm in Watauga County, outside Boone.

Fraser firs at Panoramic View Christmas Tree Farm in Watauga County, outside Boone.

Watauga County extension agent Jim Watson (left) shows a young student mites discovered on a fraser fir tree.

An elementary school student looks at mites discovered on a fraser fir tree.

Watauga County extension agent Jim Watson (left) shows a young student mites discovered on a fraser fir tree.

Watauga County extension agent Jim Hamilton (right) and student intern Noah Watson look over apple trees at Moretz Mountain Orchard outside Boone.

Watauga County extension agent Jim Hamilton (right) and student intern Noah Watson look over apple trees at Moretz Mountain Orchard outside Boone.

Apples ripen on the branches of a tree at Moretz Mountain Orchard outside Boone.

Watauga County extension agent Jim Hamilton (right) and student intern Noah Watson look over apple trees at Moretz Mountain Orchard outside Boone.

Watauga County extension agent Jim Hamilton (right) talks apples with farmer Bill Moretz of Moretz Mountain Orchard.

Watauga County extension intern Noah Watson (left) talks blueberries with farmer Bill Moretz of Moretz Mountain Orchard.

Watauga County extension agent Jim Hamilton (right) talks blueberries with farmer Bill Moretz of Moretz Mountain Orchard

Watauga County extension agent Jim Hamilton (right) talks blueberries with farmer Bill Moretz of Moretz Mountain Orchard.

Watauga County extension agent Jim Hamilton (right) and student intern Noah Watson with ginseng plants on a farm outside Boone.

Watauga County extension agent Jim Hamilton (right) talks blueberries with farmer Bill Moretz of Moretz Mountain Orchard.

Carefully cultivated ginseng plants on a farm in Watauga County.

Ginseng root from a Watauga County farm.

Watauga County extension agent Jim Hamilton (left) shows student intern Noah Watson a ginseng plant on a farm outside Boone.

Watauga County extension agent Jim Hamilton (left) shows student intern Noah Watson a ginseng plant on a farm outside Boone.

Watauga County extension agent Jim Hamilton (left) shows student intern Noah Watson a ginseng plant on a farm outside Boone.

Watauga County extension agent Jim Hamilton (left) shows student intern Noah Watson ginseng plants on a farm outside Boone.

Watauga County extension agent Jim Hamilton (left) shows student intern Noah Watson a ginseng plant on a farm outside Boone.

NC Cooerative Extension beets dish with recipe out on the Agricultural Extension loading dock in Boone for folks to sample.

Creekside Farms' Jeff Thomas (right) fills bag of one of his CSA clients at the Agricultural Extension loading dock in Boone.

Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture booth at the King Street Market in Boone.

King Street Market in Boone.

King Street Market in Boone.

NC Cooerative Extension beets dish with recipe out on the Agricultural Extension loading dock in Boone for folks to sample.

Creekside Farms' Jeff Thomas (right) chats with one of his CSA clients at the Agricultural Extension loading dock in Boone.

Creekside Farms' Jeff Thomas (right) fills bag of one of his CSA clients at the Agricultural Extension loading dock in Boone.

Creekside Farms' Jeff Thomas (right) fills bag of one of his CSA clients at the Agricultural Extension loading dock in Boone.

Creekside Farms' Jeff Thomas with some of his produce available for his CSA members at the Agricultural Extension loading dock in Boone.

Onions available to Creekside Farms' CSA clients.