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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Topic: Agribusiness Is your farm relying on a single source of income? In today's dynamic agricultural landscape, diversification is key to resilience and growth. Join us and the folks at Stonewall Bakery/Fields of Happiness for an insightful seminar and tour designed to help you unlock your farm's full potential. Attendees will share innovative ways to |
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Hidden Hollow Hemp & Herb Farm is a small mountain farming operation that is adapting and diversifying its income stream and growing techniques to include agritourism, herbalism and regenerative farming. The aim is to tap into not only season extension and efficiency, but shifting to growing on steep, heavily wooded slopes with minimal forest disruption |
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Topic: Start-up Assistance Get ready to roll into the world of food trucks and learn the secrets of success at Road Ready: Food Truck Fundamentals. Ready to put your food truck in gear? Join us with the experts who can help you get real and get on the road safely, legally and profitably. Don't miss
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Topic: Agribusiness Twilight Farms Tours Join EMFS, and the Small Business Center as we meet two Haywood farmers with Unique Market and Production Practices. Please note that farm tours are open only to owners of currently operating farms. Space is limited, and pre-registration is required. Register for each farm you would like to visit. Mighty |
1 event,Ecological Outcome Verification is an outcome-based monitoring protocol that evaluates and tracks ecosystem function year over year currently deployed on over 8 million acres globally. The EOV protocol was developed in collaboration with leading soil scientists, ecologists, agronomists, and an extensive network of regenerative land managers around the world. Used as an empirical data set |
3 events,Join 3 Barn Farm & Neighbors at our 2026 Plant Sale Healthy, Affordable Certified Naturally Grown Plants. 3 Barn Farm grows great plants just outside of Franklin, NC: Garden seedlings, Flowers, Natives & Herbs.
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Record Keeping Methods Keep records is hard. The key is finding the right mix of methods, tools and automations that work for you. Don't have time to research all that? Who does? A bookkeeper. This seminar, led by farm bookkeeper and tax expert Laurel Clabaugh will cover different ways to effectively keep records for tax |
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Come support ASAP at one of Asheville’s most anticipated spring evenings of art, community, and connection. Mosaic Community Lifestyle Realty’s Art Walk & Benefit returns on Thursday, May 7, 2026, from 5 to 8 p.m., bringing together downtown Asheville’s vibrant creative scene in support of local nonprofits—including ASAP. This free public event will unfold across 11 downtown
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Topic: Managing a Business Discover how agritourism can transform your farm into a thriving, diversified business. Shipley Farms, a 153-year-old family farm in the Western North Carolina mountains, has evolved from a legacy of Hereford cattle, sheep, and tobacco into a modern, value-added operation centered on their Signature Beef brand. Since 2014, the family has |
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In partnership with Bountiful Cities, OGS is excited to offer a series of hands-on workshops at Pearson Garden Food Hub in the Montford neighborhood in Asheville. Over 3 sessions, we will explore planning, installing infrastructure, and planting food-producing plants in a sloped system; we will build a small hillside orchard to practice the concepts and |
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Join Colleen Queeney of Queeney Foods LLC for a 2 hour Beginner Class on Fermentation. You'll learn all about how to ferment foods, enjoy tasting different fermented foods and go home with your own jar of personally flavored sauerkraut! TIME: 10:00am to Noon Saturday May 16th 2026 LOCATION: 570 Brevard Rd, Unit 9, Asheville NC
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Your steep slope isn’t just an eyesore. It’s moving. Slowly, steadily, and after a heavy rain? It heads downhill, taking your soil with it. Steep slope erosion is one of the most common — and most urgent — challenges for homeowners across Western North Carolina. The good news? The right plants can fix it fast. |
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Do you work in agriculture with volunteers? Join us for a CRAFT Tour of the Dr. John Wilson Community Garden via the WNC-CRAFT farmer network. This tour is open to current and prospective CRAFT members! We'll tour the entire garden and focus on their Growing for Donation program, a no-till production vegetable operation. Learn how |
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This workshop is aimed at farmers, market gardeners, and agricultural personnel interested in learning about equipment and tools designed for use by and/or small farmers. Extension Agents from NC Extension will lead discussions on a variety of topics. Lunch and refreshments will be provided at no charge. Specific topics covered include power equipment with a |
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Turn market shoppers into loyal customers Learn how to attract attention Engage customers at your booth and beyond Keep them coming back week after week This class is taught by Michelle Dineen Smith, the Market Director of the Watauga County Farmers' Market |
1 event,NC Queer Farmers Network will host the first ever NC Queer Farmer Convergence Friday, May 22 through Sunday, May 24 at Soul Sanctuary in Durham. The event will create spaces for queer and trans farmers, land stewards, and food justice workers to find community, solidarity, and networking in North Carolina. Guests will have opportunities to |
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Topic: Agribusiness Mushrooms can be a powerful way to diversify farm revenue—but success depends on choosing a model that aligns with your farm’s scale, infrastructure, and market realities. This hands-on workshop focuses on the business and operational considerations of adding mushrooms to an existing farm. We’ll explore scalable production models, space and infrastructure requirements, startup |
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Considering Agritourism for Your Operation Definitions, Activities, Farm Stays Topic: Agribusiness Have you considered adding agritourism to your farm operation? What are some of the activities to consider beyond the corn maze? This answer depends mostly on your farm focus and the skills and activities that are easiest for you to share. Do you love |
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Saturday May 30th, 2026 | 10am Choose-Your-Price: ($5 -$30) North America has over 4,000 species of native bees, and most of them are far better pollinators than the honeybee you’ve been trying to attract. Our native bees are the most efficient and effective pollinators, especially for the native plants they have pollinated for hundreds of
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Saturday May 30th, 2026 | 1pm Choose-Your-Price: ($5 -$30) Your mountain property is not a blank canvas. It’s a slope. It’s shade. It’s soil that would make a flatlander nervous. And if you have deer… well, you know. The good news? Every one of those things is workable. This beginner-friendly workshop with Arielle McIntyre is |
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Healthy soils are the foundation of successful agriculture, from backyard gardens to commercial farms. This course introduces participants to the fundamentals of soil science with a special focus on the Foothills and Piedmont of North Carolina. Through practical examples, participants will explore soil properties, fertility, and management practices essential for both small- and large-scale agribusiness. |
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Why Now Matters: Western North Carolina has always lived close to its water. Storms like Hurricane Helene reminded us how quickly that relationship can turn — leaving eroding banks, damaged buffers, and overwhelmed watersheds across the region. The Shade Your Stream Symposium was built for this moment. Whether you’re dealing with active erosion or just
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Join us Friday, June 6 for a free EOV & Ecology Farm Tour led by Mikey Hans-Barrientos. This guided pasture walk offers a closer look at how regenerative farming, animal health, and land stewardship all connect to the food on your plate. During the tour, guests will explore our grazing system and learn about the |