You won’t have to look very hard to find stunning local art, jewelry, handcrafted carvings, and places to satisfy your sweet tooth, and that “just right” souvenir to bring home from your [...]
An Outer Banks stay certainly escapes the rut of the pandemic. When searching for the absolutely “perfect escape,” you’ll want to keep several things in mind.
As with so many other aspects of our daily lives in 2020, the coronavirus pandemic takes the blame – or credit, depending on your point of view – for this red-hot housing market.
Today, the school tends to attract students from Raleigh, the Outer Banks and even Charlotte. Its vast array of programming – albeit via Zoom currently – includes workshops and classes for adults [...]
So I went to the person who I think has the best Outer Banks landscaping. He also just happens to be my brother Todd, the owner of SPM Landscaping. Todd has owned the company for the past 20 [...]
It seems like such a simple thing, turn the faucet on and water comes out. No priming of a pump, no one is in the backyard with a bucket waiting for water to appear. Just clear, drinkable water. [...]
Tower Gardens, or as they are also known, aeroponics, is the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment, using only nutrients and water, and without the use of soil.
When Currituck County’s Grandy solar farm goes on-line this fall (its third), it will generate 18 megawatts of electricity on the 118-acre parcel in Grandy, and will bring a four-year permitting [...]
Dare County crushes much of its glass. In many places crushed glass has become part of a vibrant market for the product. The uses are extraordinary and the market is vibrant. Locally, though, the [...]
Twenty years of age in human terms? That’s newly arrived as an adult and about to step out into the wider world. Twenty years as a home? That’s a completely different story. “In our (Outer Banks) [...]
When it comes to new development, it is easy to dwell on the sort of construction we do not want, but how about paying attention to what we do want? The ‘power of the positive’ if you [...]
Nathan Neal still remembers, as a small child, playing inside the cabinets that his father, Cliff Neal, would craft when his business was just getting off the ground back in the early 1980s. Back [...]
Pick any random residential street on the Outer Banks and you’re likely to find that every fourth yard or so has pampas grass growing in it. You can buy it at every nursery on the beach, and any [...]
In the heart of Kill Devil Hills lies a place where dappled sunlight filters through the leafy canopy of live oaks as their branches spread wide like great welcoming arms. A walking path meanders [...]
Between ocean and sound, outdoor fireplaces and fire pits are synonymous with seasonal oyster roasts, get-togethers with family and friends, and nights where the only sounds are nearby waves and [...]
A day at the beach is fun and exciting whether it’s spent surfing, swimming or playing in the sand. But, as the old saying goes, the beach would be perfect except for the sand…. and [...]
It was late August of 2017, and I felt like I had more monarchs in my front yard on Hatteras Island than all of the Brits since George I in 1714. Let me explain… As a lifetime gardener and [...]
When the crisp fall air begins to creep over the Outer Banks, many of us welcome it with open arms as a wonderful relief to the extreme heat and busy summer season we’ve all just endured, but [...]
The beaches are filling up, temperatures are rising, and the long lines at our favorite restaurants are starting to remind us just how lucky we are to live in a place where millions of people [...]
When guests go on vacation, they expect to be transported to a place of escape, wonderment, or simply to a refuge of peace and relaxation. While we are lucky enough to live in an area that offers [...]
Karen Lebing first began gardening five years ago at her soundside Waves home, planting mostly crepe myrtle, some hydrangeas, and some other plants. Several years later, Hurricane Arthur rolled [...]
This dilapidated, four-room schoolhouse currently sits by the road at on Caratoke Highway in Coinjock and hardly looks like the historic structure that it is. Owner, Paul Robinson, has purchased [...]
If you’ve ever seen a quilt made from old t-shirts, a rug knitted from plastic bags, candles poured into wine bottles that have been cut in half, or jewelry beads made from magazine pages, [...]
