A seedless sugar baby watermelon sits open at Sessions farms in Grand Bay, Ala. Tuesday, July 2, 2013. (Bill Starling/[email protected]) I’ve come to watch the harvest of one of the grandest of ...

“Summer is bare feet in the grass, spitting watermelon seeds left and right, and volunteer plants coming up,” said Ms. Carter, who lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., before returning to eastern North ...