If this won't prompt you to make a batch of collard greens, we don't know what will. People magazine recently announced its 2024 Sexiest Man Alive, but the annual award we've been eagerly awaiting was finally announced yesterday — the "Sexiest Collard Farmer" of North Carolina competition has officially declared a winner.

Brown took the crown from the inaugural Sexiest Collard Farmer winner in 2023. Last year Lee Berry, who runs The Berry Patch in Ellerbe, won it all with the help of a risqué submission photo in which he stood minimally clothed with a large collard green plant covering his front side.

Come-hither cultivators vying for the title of North Carolina’s “sexiest collard farmer” are wilting with disappointment because they got down and dirty entering steamy pictures -- only to be told they should have put some dressing on that salad.