The Live-at-Home program was a state-wide agricultural initiative that North Carolina Governor O. Max Gardner inaugurated upon taking office in 1929. Striving to combat rural poverty during a major agricultural recession and the largest economic crisis in the nation’s history, Gardner called on North Carolina farmers to help themselves. Read Article

When was the last time your teacher showed you how to cut up a pig carcass? Plant a winter garden? Can vegetables? If you are like most North Carolina students today, your answer is “never!” However, during the early 1930s—the toughest years of the Great Depression—North Carolina’s leaders believed that teaching such skills to schoolchildren and their parents would help … Read More