{"id":10828,"date":"2025-02-18T01:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T01:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/?p=10828"},"modified":"2025-02-18T01:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T01:02:25","slug":"ncamp-exhibits-at-the-2025-winter-apple-school-in-henderson-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/blog\/2025\/02\/18\/ncamp-exhibits-at-the-2025-winter-apple-school-in-henderson-county\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAMP Exhibits at the 2025 Winter Apple School in Henderson County"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">NCAMP was one of the exhibitors at the Winter Apple School held at Blue Ridge Community College Feb 4-5\u00a0in Henderson County, NC.\u00a0 The event started at the Stepp\u2019s Hillcrest Orchard on Tuesday Morning.\u00a0 Then the meeting moved to the beautiful facilities of the BRCC\u2019s Flatrock Campus for Tuesday afternoon and all day on Wednesday.\u00a0 Henderson County has held the distinction of being the 7th\u00a0largest apple producing county in the United States. \u00a0The Blue Ridge Apple Growers (BRAG) Association sponsored the school along with businesses, vendors, and government entities.\u00a0 Laura Levine, executive secretary of BRAG, was a major organizer and coordinator for this event. \u00a0The local apple growers are a very progressive group with many ventures involved with value added products (cider, chips, juice, processed apples, and baked goods).\u00a0 There are also many orchards participating in agritourism which strengthens and solidifies these farms economically.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCAMP participated as an exhibitor at the 2025 Winter Apple School, hosted by the Blue Ridge Apple Growers (BRAG) Association, from February 4th to 5th at Blue Ridge Community College. The event, which began at Stepp\u2019s Hillcrest Orchard and continued at BRCC\u2019s Flatrock Campus, highlighted Henderson County\u2019s role as the 7th largest apple producer in the U.S. Local apple growers showcased their innovative ventures in value-added products and agritourism, reinforcing the economic vitality of these orchards. Laura Levine, executive secretary of BRAG, played a key role in organizing this successful event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3388,"featured_media":10829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10830,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions\/10830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}