On Pines and Needles | Our State - Small format

PIne straw now numbers among North Carolina's significant agricultural products. To supplement their other crops, farmers started gathering and selling pine needle bales for landscaping projects. Most of these needles come from the Sandhills where the longleaf pine grows needles up to 18-inches long. Meet some of the producers, including the Claridge State Nursery in Goldsboro, to see how this commodity emerged as such an asset to North Carolina's agricultural industry.