Summer’s Other Melon
May 16, 2019
2 minutes
By Jenny Everett
In the 1930s, North Carolina wasn’t just known for barbecue and scuppernongs. It was also famous for growing a spectacularly sweet summer treat: cantaloupe. Planted by German settlers in the small community of Ridgeway, the melon quickly became known as the “Ridgeway cantaloupe” (a forerunner of the hybrids we
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