Moving chickens, harvesting tobacco, managing hog manure: NC farmers prepare for Florence

WILLOW SPRING, N.C. - Thick clouds and heavy humidity hinted at the storm crawling its way toward Carolina Mushroom Farm. But it was a crisp 38 degrees inside one of the farm’s concrete and metal coolers that stores harvested and packaged mushrooms.

For Shahane Taylor and Steve Carroll, the farm’s co-owners, the electricity that keeps their mushroom…