Our May “Home & Garden” magazine highlights Fayetteville’s passion for community gardening, rural farming and creating a sense of home.
Stories
Fayetteville resident grows community garden out of ancestral land
Sarah Faison struggled after leaving her corporate job to create a community garden on her family’s land, but along the way she forged new connections, found peace and discovered what it means to be home.
How one Fayetteville farmer hopes to sustain legacy and local food system at the same time
Covid-19 closed his business. But with the ultimate goal of a self-sustaining farm, a stronger local food system and a family legacy for Melvin’s Produce Farm, Smoked Fresh’s owner Travis Melvin is back on his family land full-time.
Fighting food insecurity through mutual aid
J’Kwan Fulmore, founder of the nonprofit Er’Body Eatz, is rallying community members to feed the hungry by building gardens in blighted neighborhoods
Column: Former soldier has created quite a buzz with his honeybees in north Cumberland County
“We worked at it,” says Jim Hartman, who is the 2024 Small Farmer of the Year for his Secret Garden Bees business in Linden. He shares the success of the business with his wife, and the award with Patrick Brown of Warren County.
Cape Fear Regional Theatre is live in living color at expansion groundbreaking
Shovels of confetti and glitter mark next phase of theater renovations
Columns
CityView’s May magazine highlights the community’s passion for community gardening, rural farming and creating a sense of home
The ‘Home & Garden’ issue will hit newsstands around Cumberland County in mid-May
Column: The green thumb gene skipped me
When I consider the preceding generations of naturally gifted growers in my family, it is completely and utterly lost on me as to how I was born with a thumb browner than the dead-as-a-doornail plants that usually disgrace my porches and patio.
Column: This Mother’s Day, celebrate strong mothers in film
In the month when we celebrate our own heroic mothers, I can think of no better time either to introduce you to or, perhaps, reacquaint you with two of my favorite movie moms.
Column: 7 mystery books in houses or gardens to read this May
When a book is set in a house that is dark and scary with hidden secrets, it just grabs us and won’t let go. If you like mysteries and scary stories, here are a few that will send tingles down your spine.
The To-Do List
May To-Do List: Top 27 things to do this month in Cumberland County
Experience exciting events happening in and around Fayetteville this month from CityView Magazine’s May issue
Seen @ The Scene
CityView’s 5th Annual Ladies’ Night Out welcomed over 300 attendees
Attendees browsed through 30 vendors’ merchandise, eating delicious food and drinks and enjoying two fashion shows and more
