Community Events Calendar

ASAP offers a free calendar for community members to post local food and farm events. These events are user-submitted and event details should be confirmed with the host.

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Lawns & Lawn Alternatives

North Carolina Cooperative Extension McDowell County Center 60 East Court Street, Marion, NC

The Extension Gardener Training classes are open to anyone wanting to learn more about good gardening practices in Zone 7 based on research-based information. A new topic will be discussed each week during the series. You may join us for each of the six topics or you can choose which topics interest you. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lawns-lawn-alternatives-tickets-464345980327

Lavender Transplant Volunteer Work Weekend

Spiral Mountain 96 Randall Cove Rd, Leicester, NC, United States

Please join us for a volunteer work weekend at our new farm and community in Sandymush, NC -- Spiral Mountain. Spiral Mountain is a 34-acre farm with five cabins. We envision people living in community together here and growing much of our own food, including both annual vegetables and permaculture perennials. We also envision growing ... Read more

Mental Health First Aid for Farmers

Creekside Farms Education Center 339 Avery Creek Rd, Arden, NC

Done in collaboration with NC Agromedicine Institute. Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is a national program that employs a 8-hour training to teach a 5-step tool to identify and respond to signs of mental illness, substance use, and mental health crisis. MHFA provides signs and symptoms of mental illness, how to help, and training on ... Read more

Mushroom Log Plugging

The Forest Farmacy 24 Davis Lane, Marshall, NC, United States

Growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms at home is easy! Inoculating (plugging) logs with mushroom spawn is a great way to get started. Many mushroom species love to grow on trees naturally. The easiest way to simulate this natural relationship is to inoculate cut logs with mushroom spawn. This is a low-tech, no waste, regenerative way ... Read more

Afterschool Pottery with Ona

Hickory Nut Gap Farm 57 Sugar Hollow Road , Fairview , NC, United States

What are your kiddos doing after school this Spring? Are they wild, unhinged muddy monsters once they get home? Are they glued to a tablet when they hit the carpool lane? Sounds like Firefly Valley’s Pottery Class here on the farm by artist Ona is what they need- let’s play in the mud, be outside ... Read more

Business of Farming Series: Legal Structures and Agritourism Framework

Online/Virtual

Join us for our 6-part Business of Farming Series Join us for this 6-week series designed for new and beginning farmers who want to explore their options in farming, ranching, and agriculture. In this program, we’ll help you cultivate a strategic plan to validate your goals and engage with a community of agripreneurs to strengthen ... Read more

Savory Hub Naturalist Series: Stream Health & Critters

Hickory Nut Gap Farm 57 Sugar Hollow Road , Fairview , NC, United States

Do a deep dive in our shallow streams and creeks on the Farm with our friends at Asheville’s own Environmental Quality Institute! Start off with Stream Macroinvertebrate Information Exchange protocol and get into the stream for active sampling and identification. Learn about our Holistic Land Management from Farm Director Virginia, and how this practice works ... Read more

Gardening in the Mountains class

Two Trees Farm 505 Long Branch Rd, Canton, NC, United States

This class will cover what to grow, how to grow it, and how to troubleshoot. We will talk about garden varieties that do well in the cool evenings and wet mornings in the mountains of WNC. The class will dive deep into how to cultivate healthy soils to encourage healthy plants and how to use ... Read more

Afterschool Pottery with Ona

Hickory Nut Gap Farm 57 Sugar Hollow Road , Fairview , NC, United States

What are your kiddos doing after school this Spring? Are they wild, unhinged muddy monsters once they get home? Are they glued to a tablet when they hit the carpool lane? Sounds like Firefly Valley’s Pottery Class here on the farm by artist Ona is what they need- let’s play in the mud, be outside ... Read more

Business of Farming Series: Financial Planning for Your Agribusiness

Online/Virtual

Join us for our 6-part Business of Farming Series Join us for this 6-week series designed for new and beginning farmers who want to explore their options in farming, ranching, and agriculture. In this program, we’ll help you cultivate a strategic plan to validate your goals and engage with a community of agripreneurs to strengthen ... Read more

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