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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Annual Herb Festival this Weekend in Asheville

May 3-5 24rd Annual Asheville Herb Festival The WNC Chapter of the NC Herb Association represents the incredibly wide variety of herbalists and herb businesses in North Carolina: herb growers and vendors, natural gardening and landscaping specialists, and makers of herbal ointments, balms, soaps, teas, medicines, and other products.

Join more than 25,000 other herb lovers to celebrate the 24rd annual Asheville Herb Festival. Again this year environmentally sensible rain barrels will be available, and Master Gardeners, experts from the Buncombe County Extension Service, will be on hand during the festival to answer gardening questions.

Get a link for the Herb Festival and other Asheville events, attractions and lodging on the Asheville NC Visitor Guide.

Friday, April 27, 2012

NC Heritage Events this Weekend

April 28 Pioneer Day - An annual celebration of mountain heritage in Old Fort NC. The one-day festival features mountain music in the amphitheater, craft demonstrations such as weaving, black smithing and pottery turning, See Hit or Miss engine displays and vendors displaying and selling their wares. This all day event is held on the Mountain Gateway Museum grounds in downtown Old Fort. A get a link for Pioneer Day on the NC Events Calendar

April 28 Historic Johnson Farm Festival The Historic Johnson farmhouse and outbuildings located in Hendersonville NC will be open for touring. There will also be live entertainment, demonstrations, wagon rides, children's activities, farm animals and food.

Friday, June 24, 2011

Asheville's Family Farm Tour takes you Back to the Farm

June 25 - 26 Asheville hosts The Family Farm Tour For one weekend every summer, the gates and barns of 41 WNC farms open to the public for the Family Farm Tour. The Tour includes many farms that don’t normally allow visitors.

To access the Tour you purchase an ADMISSION BUTTON which admits your vehicle and all its occupants for one price during the two-day self-guided driving tour. Learn how food grows, taste farm-fresh treats, interact with farm animals and meet the community’s food producers. The Family Farm Tour is coordinated by Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP).

For the 2011 Tour, ASAP has created a Family Farm Tour Photo Contest. Take your camera with you on the tour. That stunning image you capture could win one of three top Photo Contest prizes: a day pass to Biltmore and $15 in Asheville City Market Bucks. Read how to enter your photos on the Photo Contest page.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Growers' Fair at Full Spectrum Farms

April 16 Full Spectrum Farms - Growers' Fair Buy or share plants and seeds with your neighbors while supporting Full Spectrum Farms. A service organization dedicated to providing a full spectrum of life’s opportunities for persons with autism. This event promotes sustainable agriculture by providing local growers an opportunity to present their products to the public. Full Spectrum Farm is located at 3101 Old Cullowhee Road, Cullowhee, NC.

The Blue Ridge Parkway at 469 miles long is the nation's longest scenic rural parkway. Now 70 years old it is administered by the National Park Service and host to approximately 20 million visits annually. It connects the Shenandoah Valley National Park with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. Along the route are opportunities for lodging, dining, camping, hiking and simply enjoying breathtaking views from easily accessible overlooks and picnic areas. For additional information visit :The Blueridge Parkway Association

The River Arts District is open year around with the opportunity to meet artists in their studios. Schedules are available online. This unique area along the French Broad River is home to more than 165 artists with working studios located in 18 turn-of-the-century industrial buildings. The artists of the River Arts District welcome you into their studios to talk with them, see their latest artwork, watch demonstrations, and experience for yourself the magic hidden inside the time-worn factories and warehouses along the French Broad River.

Chimney Rock Park is named for a 500 million-year-old giant granite monolith overlooking Hickory Nut Gorge. Visitors are awed by the breathtaking view that spreads 1200 vertical feet beneath them and 75 miles across the Carolinas. The now state owned park encompasses 1,000 acres offers the best of the mountains in one place with spectacular 75-mile views, hiking trails for all ages, a 404-foot waterfall, a variety of special events and much more. Chimney Rock NC

The National Scenic Byways Program is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. The program is a grass-roots collaborative effort established to help recognize, preserve and enhance selected roads throughout the United States. Since 1992, the National Scenic Byways Program has provided funding for almost 1500 state and nationally designated byway projects in 48 states. The U.S. Secretary of Transportation recognizes certain roads as All-American Roads or National Scenic Byways based on one or more archeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational and scenic qualities.

Tsali Recreation Area is an outdoors lover's paradise. Probably the most popular features of Tsali Recreation Area are the 39 miles of trails suited for mountain bikers and horse-back riders, as well as hikers. The 4-loop system offers a variety of landscapes. You can climb 1-foot wide rugged paths or travel flat, well-beaten roads. The four trails--Right, Left, Mouse Branch, and Thompson Loops--meander through mixed pine and hardwoods on a peninsula stretching into Fontana Lake. Near Bryson City NC and Robbinsville NC.