You can’t travel far in Northeastern North Carolina without passing a home with muscadine grapes growing in the backyard. Many of those vines we see have been growing for decades and the care of them ...

The muscadine grape is as Southern as cotton - actually, it is more so, since it is native to the region. The various kinds of cotton grown in the South, Gossypium species, are native to Asia, Africa ...

It’s vine time as muscadines and scuppernongs are ripening now. These sour-skinned, but spicy-sweet on the inside native grapes, often referred to as the “Grapes of the South,” are like rutabagas and ...

Muscadine grapes are in season in our area. Known for their unique flavor, they are very different from the California seedless grapes at local stores. Muscadines have a stronger flavor, seeds and a ...

There is more to grapes than jelly, jam and juice. You can freeze them on a cookie sheet for a cool summer treat or dry them to make your own raisins. You can make grape leathers by cooking grape ...

There's problem, though. Many people have a hard time getting past the thick skin and bitter seeds of the muscadine. Not totally unexpected for a fruit that takes its name from the smell of a male ...

Did you know that only one fruit native to North America is a widely available grocery store item? That would be the blueberry and the closely related cranberry. Sometimes you can find Concord grapes ...

Islam El-Sharkawy, PhD is an associate professor at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and is currently researching how grapes can be used to prevent and treat disease. Protiva Das, PhD , ...

For the supporters of the muscadine grape juice bill, it would do a bunch of things: It would promote the Scuppernong grape, which is a kind of muscadine grape, and is the North Carolina state fruit.