Slow Food Asheville is excited to announce our 2016 Heritage Food Project. This year we are highlighting the Cherokee Trail of Tears Bean, an heirloom memorializing the forced relocation of the Cherokee Indians in the mid-nineteenth century. We'd like you to join us in celebrating this bean by growing and learning about it. We are conducting a community-wide variety trial, and we ask you to share your experiences growing and using the bean. This fall we will invite you to a bean celebration, where we will share foods prepared with these beans. The Heritage Food Project has partnered with local establishments across WNC to make free seed packets available for home gardeners and farmers -- anyone interested in growing food with us! Packets contain approximately 50-70 seeds. Locations where you can find the Slow Food Asheville seed display include: Buncombe County Cooperative Extension office at 49 Mt. Carmel Road, Asheville OWL Bakery in West Asheville River Arts District Farmers Market on Wednesdays 2-6pm Hendersonville Community Co-Op Mill Spring Ag Center in Polk County
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Slow Food Asheville is excited to announce our 2016 Heritage Food Project. This year we are highlighting the Cherokee Trail of Tears Bean, an heirloom memorializing the forced relocation of the Cherokee Indians in the mid-nineteenth century. We'd like you to join us in celebrating this bean by growing and learning about it. We are conducting a community-wide variety trial, and we ask you to share your experiences growing and using the bean. This fall we will invite you to a bean celebration, where we will share foods prepared with these beans. The Heritage Food Project has partnered with local establishments across WNC to make free seed packets available for home gardeners and farmers -- anyone interested in growing food with us! Packets contain approximately 50-70 seeds. Locations where you can find the Slow Food Asheville seed display include: Buncombe County Cooperative Extension office at 49 Mt. Carmel Road, Asheville OWL Bakery in West Asheville River Arts District Farmers Market on Wednesdays 2-6pm Hendersonville Community Co-Op Mill Spring Ag Center in Polk County
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Extension's Gardening Portal at NC State University provides access to a wealth of information, events and resources for gardeners in North Carolina. Managed by the State Urban Horticulture Specialist and Cooperative Extension Horticulture Agents throughout the state, it is your doorway to guidance about successfully growing vegetables, herbs, fruits, flowers and ornamentals in your landscape.
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Our partners at the State Climate Office of North Carolina provide the most accurate climate information to the citizens of our state. Their website includes recent news from their Twitter feed, featured products, quick links, and a map of data from their ECONet weather stations. You can also view data from more than 1,000 Southeastern weather stations on their full CRONOS map or follow their blog.
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Buncombe County Cooperative Extension has 80 gallon rain barrels available. Each barrel comes complete with fittings and installation instructions. Barrels are available for $120 + tax, cash or check only. To purchase your barrel, come to the Buncombe County Extension Office, 49 Mount Carmel Rd. Asheville, NC 28806. To check availability call (828) 255-5522. We’ll be happy to hold your barrel for pick up. Check out the barrel on http://www.rainbarrelusa.com/
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Want to learn more about Buncombe County Extension Master Gardeners? Buncombe County Master Gardener Information Buncombe Master Gardener Website Subscribe to the Blog Like the Master Gardeners on Facebook PLEASE NOTE.... EMGV Training Class 2017: N.C. Cooperative Extension, Buncombe County Center, will be offering an Extension Master Gardener Certification class in 2017. If you are interested in and would like more information or register your name for the application please call 828-255-5522.
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Three students at East Chapel Hill High School, Brooke, Julia and Danielle, and Environmental Science Teacher, Mr. Edward Kaybay, share their experience starting a pollinator garden at their school. Listen to the interview MORE » – from 
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Wednesday September 14 at 5:30 pm Chatham County Agriculture Agent Debbie Roos will be giving a tour of Chatham County Cooperative Extension’s Pollinator Paradise Demonstration Garden at Chatham Mills in Pittsboro. The garden was designed to MORE » – from Growing Small Farms
Photos by Debbie Roos, Chatham County Cooperative Extension In late 2008, I planted a demonstration pollinator garden at Chatham Mills to provide forage from early spring to late fall for pollinators such as honey MORE » – from Growing Small Farms
Click HERE for the latest Newsletter! Articles include: Spooktacular Plants Chalkbark maple Butterhead and leaf lettuces Soil testing for sustainable nutrient management and much MORE » – from Extension Gardener
On September 8th, join Southern Appalachian Highland’s Conservancy, in partnership with the NC Cooperative Extension, and the NC Agromedicine Institute for an afternoon of farm safety. With many entrepreneurs starting agricultural businesses mitigating the risk of farm MORE »
Be inspired to visit the the Japanese Garden in the Asiatic Arboretum of the the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. Charles Murphy interviews Matt Luks-Jurutka, Assistant Horticulturist at the Asiatic Arboretum. TRANSCRIPT JOHNSON This MORE » – from Extension Gardener
The 16th Annual Nursery Crop Field Day will be held on Friday, September 23 from 8 am to 3 pm at Hard and Flossie Clark Park in Collettsville, NC. The event features hands-on MORE » – from Burke County Center
This event features on-site demonstrations and will focus on recent research from Dr. Joe Neal’s lab exploring the economics and efficacy of weed control strategies in container nurseries. Topics include herbicide efficacy and MORE » – from Burke County Center
Look to your garden now and make plans to enter the Standard Flower Show or the Flower and Garden Show at the North Carolina Mountain State Fair September 9-18th. Buncombe County Extension Master Gardeners MORE »
Need an inexpensive and very useful gift for a gardener or for yourself? Buncombe County Cooperative Extension offers this attractive and informative 30 page Guide tailored to growing conditions in Buncombe County and MORE »
Buncombe County Soil and Water Conservation District’s seed drill is available for rent through the district. Reserve your dates for spring planting! The drill can be picked up on the reserved date at MORE »
Thanks to funding from the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Ag & Forestry Fund, the Buncombe County Cooperative Extension offers two pieces of plasticulture equipment, a raised bed mulch layer and a water wheel MORE »
The Extension Master Gardener Volunteers of Buncombe County offer a School Grants Program that awards monies to selected schools in Buncombe County to promote gardening education and appreciation among school-aged MORE »
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