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Events for the week of 10/21/2012
| Edible Schoolyard's Harvest Dinner Fundraiser |
 Date: 10/22 - 10/22
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Monday, October 22, 2012 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
The Edible Schoolyard (ESY) is holding a covered dish fundraiser at the Living Learning Center at ASU. The dishes will include foods grown in the ESY garden and personal gardens.
The Edible Schoolyard is a community space where students, faculty and staff can maintain a garden plot to learn proper gardening practices.
At this garden space, healthy farming and gardening principles are shared resulting in an understanding of the need for productive maintenance of agricultural ecosystems in a long-term pursuit of self-sufficiency and permaculture.
The ESY is not formally funded or staffed so it needs people power and money to keep it going. It is a valuable teaching tool used extensively as a classroom teaching tool for some first year seminar classes and the Watauga Global Community.
On Tuesday, October 23, the ESY will hold a clean-up day to prepare the garden for winter. This event is from noon to 4 p.m.
Sponsor: Center for Appalachian Studies
Contact name: Debbie Bauer
Contact email: bauerdk@appstate.edu
Contact telephone: (828) 262-4089
Location: Great Hall, Living Learning Center
Admission: Free
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| Edible Schoolyard Garden Workday |
 Date: 10/23 - 10/23
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm
The Edible Schoolyard is holding a garden clean-up to prepare the garden for winter.
The Edible Schoolyard is a community space where students, faculty and staff can maintain a garden plot to learn proper gardening practices.
At this garden space, healthy farming and gardening principles are shared resulting in an understanding of the need for productive maintenance of agricultural ecosystems in a long-term pursuit of self-sufficiency and permaculture.
The Edible Schoolyard (ESY) is not formally funded or staffed so it needs our help to keep it going and in good shape. It is a valuable teaching tool used extensively as a classroom teaching tool for some first year seminar classes and the Watauga Global Community.
The ESY is holding a Harvest Dinner Fundraiser on Monday Oct. 22 at 4p.m.
Sponsor: Center for Appalachian Studies
Contact name: Debbie Bauer
Contact email: bauerdk@appstate.edu
Contact telephone: (828) 262-4089
Location: Living Learning Center Edible Schoolyard
Admission: Free
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| National Food Day |
 Date: 10/24 - 10/24
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Thanksgiving is not the only day set aside to celebrate food — Oct. 24 is National Food Day.
Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement toward more healthy, affordable and sustainable food, culminating in a day of action on Oct. 24 every year.
According to the Appalachian District Health Department, “Food Day is a chance to celebrate what our food system does right, and take action to bring us closer to a food system with ‘real food’ that is produced with care for the environment, animals, and the women and men who grow, harvest and serve it. Food Day’s priorities are to promote safer, healthier diets, support sustainable and organic farms, reduce hunger, reform factory farms to protect the environment and support fair working conditions for food and farm workers.”
As a region with a strong local and sustainable foods movement, the High Country has much to celebrate. Various campus and community organizations will be sponsoring events on and around Oct. 24, the officials said.
Appalachian State University’s Office of University Sustainability will host “Know Your F.A.C.s,” a food and campus sustainability celebration on Sanford Mall on the ASU campus. The event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25, is open to students, faculty and staff. Various organizations involved in food and campus sustainability will have informational booths.
Several local dinners will be open to the public. The Bread of Life Community Kitchen of the Hospitality House will be providing a local meal, along with tours of the facility and gardens. The meal, which will be provided and prepared by representatives of F.A.R.M. Café and High Country United Church of Christ, will be served from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Dinner is free, but an RSVP to the Hospitality House is requested.
As part of its Food for a Change Dinner Series, High Country Local First will also be hosting a local dinner in honor of Food Day. Tickets must be purchased in advance.
In addition to these community meals, two public film screenings will highlight the local foods movement: “Weight of the Nation” at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, October 24, at the Agricultural Conference Center, and “Greening the Revolution” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, at the Watauga County Public Library and at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, at ASU’s Belk Library Room 114.
Numerous organizations partnered to pull together these events, including the Goodnight Family Sustainable Development Program, Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture, Appalachian District Health Department, High Country Local First, Building Common Ground Grant, Appalachian State University’s Office of Sustainability, F.A.R.M. Café and Hospitality House.
For more information, visit:
Food Day
ASU Food Day Event Listing
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| Food For a Change Dinner |
 Date: 10/24 - 10/24
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Vegetarian/Vegan Farm to Table Dinner
This meal will be a celebration of the tastes of autumn in the High Country planned in conjunction with Food Day, which is a nationwide movement for healthy, affordable and sustainable food for all. We will feature many dishes to please both vegan and vegetarian guests prepared by a team of talented and very creative chefs. Please bring your beer or wine of choice with you for this dinner.
Dinner is served at 6p.m. Price is $40 per person. Advanced ticket sales only, no day-of sales.
If you are a High Country Local First business member, or if you have a LOCAL FIRST! REWARDS CARD, you receive $5 off list price. Thanks for your support. All proceeds go to High Country Local First.
Food for a Change FAQ
Sponsor: High Country Local First
Contact name: Mary Scott
Contact email: highcountrylocalfirst@gmail.com
Contact telephone: (828) 773-4373
Location: Camp Sky Ranch
Admission: $40 advanced ticket purchase
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| Watauga County Farmer's Market |
 Date: 10/27 - 10/27
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Date/Time
Repeats every week every Saturday until Thu Nov 01 2012 .
8:00am - 12:00pm
Location
Horn in the West Park
519 Horn in the West Drive Parking on site. Fills up fast get out early!
Boone, NC 28607
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Description
Would you like to choose from the freshest of produce, baked goods, and flowers while you talk to the people who have a personal commitment to their quality? Select locally grown garden plants and live herbs? Experience the tradition of Blue Ridge Mountain crafts?
Every week you will find quality organic fresh cut flowers and hardy local plants, delicious edibles from artisanal chefs and bakers and a wide assortment of regional crafts.
Come on out for the next Farmers' Market.We will be there Rain or Shine
Watauga County Farmers' Market will be open every Saturday through the end of October. We will also have our holiday markets on the Saturday before and after Thanksgiving from 10 - 2. Come out and see us! You will find us at the Horn in the West. Take 105 Extension. Turn at the new First Citizens Bank onto Horn Avenue. Go 500 feet up the hill and we are on the left.
Note: Every 3rd Saturday of the month, please visit our kids vending area near the Powderhorn Theatre--they will be selling their self-made/self-grown products and would love your support and encouragement!
Plant & Herb Day May 21, 2011
Spring Green Day June 11, 2011
Red, White & Blue Day July 2, 2011
Tomato & Garlic Day August 20, 2011
Pie Contest September 17, 2011
Appalachian Craft Day October 15, 2011
Holiday Markets November 19 & 26, 2011
Come out and see us Wednesdays (June 1 - Sept. 29) at the Watauga County Farmers Market in the parking lot of Kmart from 8-11AM.
Contact
Name: Tori Cox
Email: info@wataugacountyfarmersmarket.org
Phone: (828) 355-4918
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| Ashe County Farmer's Market |
 Date: 10/27 - 10/27
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Come out to Downtown West Jefferson and visit the Ashe County Farmers' Market! This Saturday from 8:00am - 1:00pm
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