Calendar of Events

$12 Advance / $15 Day of Show

Friction Farm combines storytelling, social commentary and humor to create songs of everyday life, local heroes and quirky observations.

Seated Lounge Show:: Limited Tables Available with a Dinner Reservation :: All Other Seating is First Come First Serve General Admission :: Please Call Venue for Dinner (Table) Reservations

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Mitch’s Totally Rad Trivia is a team trivia played in 7 rounds over the course of 2 endlessly entertaining hours. The game covers everything pop culture and is always irreverent by nature. The game is not your average pub quiz as it explores everything from didgeridoo covers of pop songs to bad celebrity tattoos and everything in between. Ever wanted to identify animals by their gonads? Then this is the game for you! Mitch curates a one of a kind trivia smorgasbord of random, unusual, and hilarious subjects. This absurd trivia game is not about historical facts or sports stats, it is all about random movies, unforgettable ear-worms, and the hilariousness of growing up in the 80’s and 90’s. The game starts at 7pm in the cozy One Stop in downtown Asheville. Drink specials include $4 bourbon/$4 Washington Apple Shots and $5 White Russians, and food is available from MOJO Kitchen which offers 1/2 price nachos during the game! Best of all the winning team each week takes home a collection of Totally Rad Prizes including a $35 gift certificate to The One Stop/MOJO Kitchen.

https://www.facebook.com/events/194832771290218/?event_time_id=384151692358324

Every Thursday, The Bywater Open Mic ? from 7PM until ???. Signup starts at 6 PM, and acts of all kinds are welcome and encouraged.
$5 Premium Whiskey Every Week.
Hosted by John Duncan

https://www.facebook.com/events/567963313668945/?event_time_id=567963350335608

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! March 7

Spring Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge Mountains
Get a sneak preview of the spring wildflowers of the Blue Ridge that will burst into bloom any day now.
Botanist Tim Spira will show photographs and discuss interesting characteristics of common and conspicuous, as
well as rare and unusual, spring wildflowers. These include trilliums, trout lily, wild ginger, mayapple, bearcorn, Jack-in-the-pulpit, pink lady’s slipper, cucumber root, Oconee bells, and many others, including a few shrubs and trees. You’ll see examples of how plants interact with pollinators, herbivores (animals that feed on plants), and seed dispersal agents, including birds, bears, and ants.

This talk is free and open to the public.
Date: Thursday, MARCH 7TH
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Location: Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place, Asheville

A plant ecologist, native plant gardener, and professor emeritus at Clemson University where he taught field botany and plant ecology, Spira did research on plant-pollinator interactions for more than 20 years. He has published more than 30 papers in scientific journals including a cover article in the journal Nature.
He’s the author of the award-winning book, Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont: A Naturalist's Guide to the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia (UNC Press). His latest book is Waterfalls and Wildflowers in the Southern Appalachians: 30
Great Hikes (UNC Press).

For more information, contact Judy Mattox, [email protected], 828-683-2176.

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Do you drink and know things? Come out for $3 drafts and show off your big brain box!

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Hello our wine-loving friends, our March Flight Night is planned for Thursday, March 7 at 7 PM. The cost of the flight is $18 (excluding tax and gratuity). We welcome back our friend Chris Curtis with Winebow (formerly known as The Country Vintner). Please be sure to get your RSVP in as soon as possible to reserve your seat. Chris will educate and entertain us as he guides us through the flight. Chris, Katy, and I have selected the theme “WHAT WOULD AMADEUS DRINK?”. In recognition of the upcoming Asheville Amadeus festival, we will be pouring four amazing Austrian wines that perhaps Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart drank during his lifetime. Bring a friend and enjoy these wines:

Stadt Krems Gruner Veltliner 2017
Huber Dry Riesling 2017
Loimer Rose 2017
Beck Blaufrankisch 2017

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Sponsored by Hydro Flask and in Asheville by Great Outdoor Provision Co.

The WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR has arrived in the USA for the first time ever and will be in Asheville for ONE NIGHT ONLY on March 7, 2019! This tour is a celebration of the fantastic women around us who are doing extraordinary things. The films are to be enjoyed by women and men of all ages!

The event features an all new set of short films including the premiere of Katie Walsh’s film, Surfing to Cope about American surfer, Brianna Cope. You’ll also experience climbing, skiing, mountaineering, snowboarding and travel films from all over the world.

The WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR was launched in to a sell-out crowd in Sydney in May 2017 and has since grown to become a success throughout Australia, Asia and the UK. We are very pleased to be bringing the tour to North America for the first time beginning September 2018.

Being adventurous doesn’t always have to mean being the fastest, going the highest or doing the most extreme things. Adventure for the most of us is stepping outside our comfort zone and climbing our own personal Everest.

Our selection of unique films have been carefully chosen to show awesome women achieving their adventurous goals. The films showcase real stories about women from a variety of cultures and sports around the world. So bring your adventurous family, friends, girlfriends, partners and children to celebrate with us adventurous women!

The WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR is presented in the USA for the benefit of Changing Tides Foundation. It is supported by Hydro Flask, Mountain Khakis, CLIF Bar, The Inertia, RECOVER, Eco-Products, Roofnest and AndShesDopeToo.

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My name is Amber and I’m the owner of Kleidoscope Yoga. I’m an instructor, artist, dancer, cat lover, coffee consumer and I’m over the moon to introduce you back (or to) Groove on OM!

For an hour once a week I’m offering you a safe space where you can honor yourself with no pressures, no expectations, no judgment, no worries – just a load of dancing FUN with some great gals!

It’s a safe space to be yourself. What we do here (even as silly as we may look or seem) stays here. And there’s no choreography so even if you feel like you can’t dance – just find what movements your body craves and GO FOR IT!

I encourage singing, bouncing, hootin’, hollerin’, shaking and whatever else strikes your fancy.

What I want is for Groove on OM to grow so more women like you and I have a place to PLAY, let loose, lift each other up and create some powerful magic together. So gather up your girlfriends, sisters, aunts or mothers and daughters (as long as they’re 18)!

This six-week session runs January 31st – March 7th. The drop-in price is $13 cash only please but you can save $18 if you purchase the entire 6-week session for only $60! It’s a great commitment to make time for yourself, with your girlfriends, to get exercise or blow off steam. To purchase the session, my safe paypal link is below. Of course, cash or checks are always accepted as well for the full session price.

If you want to try #GrooveonOM once for the drop in price and decide you love it – you can still purchase the rest of the weeks in the session as a bundle at $10 a class! Even if you join us in the 3rd week – you’ll still save some cashola!

If you’re like me, dancing feels like it brings a fresh perspective to life. It releases stagnant energy and makes space for new ideas. It’s MAGIC And DAMN if it doesn’t feel good!

Dancing has been a beautiful form of communication since the beginning of time and there IS something primal about letting your body just move to the music without a care in the world. I believe you just have to find that comfortable space to let that happen.

We will take a few moments to greet one another, set intentions and then get our groove on with all sorts of different types of music. There is no choreography, just the opportunity to let your body find it’s rhythm and flow no matter what that feels or looks like!

****Just a quick note. Please respect that there will be no drugs or alcohol permitted, you must be at least 18 years of age and what happens at Groove on OM stays at Groove on OM.***

Again, here is the pricing for you – $60 for 6 weeks beginning Thursday, January 31st or $13 cash to drop in.

Dress comfortably – or in costume – come dressed in a way that calls to you.

I can’t wait to see you there and by the way, if you have a tune that gets your booty shakin’ let me know! I’m always looking for music to add to the playlist.

Namaste ♥

https://www.facebook.com/events/541635442970752/?event_time_id=541635456304084

An intimate acoustic performance: One Night Only
Ages 21+ only, no exceptions

Special guest: Paul Liford of Fine Line

Tickets on sale: Nov 20th, 2018
Prices are $18 for general admission, $72 for a four person reserved table. $1.50 ticket fee applies to each ticket

VIP Meet N Greet cocktail hour for $22 — THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE YOUR TICKET TO THE SHOW… does include one beer/wine/champagne during Meet N Greet, may have one item signed and take one photo with artist. Only 30 VIP tickets available.

John Corabi is one of the most talented singers and songwriters to ever come out of the hard rock genre. Whether it was with the Scream, Motley Crue, Union, or any of the other amazing recordings that he has been a part of, John’s distinctive voice and emotive song writing cannot be matched.

With a past as colorful as John’s, his future is what is most exciting! In early 2006 he began writing songs with writers in Nashville for some of the biggest names in country music, and has found time to write several TV show treatments, that are currently being pitched. John has just released a new album, simply titled “Unplugged” with Rat Pak Records that covers many of his greatest career hits.

https://www.facebook.com/events/195396391363167/

3 bands coming together for a stellar night of tunes in Seneca. Come hang at your favorite record store for a fun night. Music at 8pm.

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The New York Times calls it “the best musical of this century.” The Washington Post says, “It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals.” And Entertainment Weekly says, “Grade A: the funniest musical of all time.” Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show calls it “Genius. Brilliant. Phenomenal.” It’s The Book of Mormon, the nine-time Tony Award®-winning Best Musical.

This outrageous musical comedy follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. Now with standing room only productions in London, on Broadway, and across North America, The Book of Mormon has truly become an international sensation. Contains explicit language.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1797563616931820/?event_time_id=1797563653598483

Deerhunter at The Mothlight
w/ Molly Nilsson, Apostille
Thursday, March 7th
Doors 8pm, Show 8:30
*Sold Out*

**If you purchased tickets for the previously announced Molly Nilsson show (without Deerhunter), we have emailed you details. You’re tickets will be honored for this updated show listing.

https://www.facebook.com/events/254332748581636/

$12 Advance / $12 Day of Show

Mike Guggino and Barrett Smith of the Grammy award winning Steep Canyon Rangers join forces to perform an evening of string music. The music will be Italian themed and Chef Porter will match the mood with an Italian Four Coursed Dinner. Our regular menu will be available as well. Come with friends and enjoy a great dinner accompanied by beautiful music!

Limited Tables Available with a Dinner Reservation :: All Other Seating is First Come First Serve General Admission :: Please Call Venue for Dinner (Table) Reservations.

Come with friends and enjoy a great dinner accompanied by beautiful music!

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The Freeway Revival + Ashley Heath & Her Heathens

WHEN: Thursday March 7th, 2019

WHERE: Ambrose West 312 Haywood Road Asheville, NC 28806

TICKETS: $10

DOORS: 7:30pm

SHOW: 8:30pm

SEATING: Standing Room w/ some cocktail tables

The Freeway Revival

Dedicated song crafting has always been the cornerstone of The Freeway Revival. A group forged on the road, they continue to use their lyrics as a window into the life of a traveling band. The Freeway Revival’s explosive blend of southern rock, funk, and psychedelic soul encapsulates a sound that feels strangely familiar yet remains entirely unique to itself.

Performing live, The Freeway balances organized, well-crafted tunes with a jam ethos that lends a raw and explorative power to the music. The blend of tasteful guitar harmonies, vibrant three-part vocal harmonies, and a unique assortment of piano/organ and saxophone melodies creates a soundscape that is both intricate and energetic. Rest that on the groove of a solid rhythm section, and you are sure to feel the magnetic force of this band! Each member plays a vital role in making the live experience unforgettable.

The band has toured relentlessly behind their self-titled EP as well as their full length 2017 release ‘Revolution Road’, continually growing a dedicated grassroots fan base. The process of writing, recording and touring is ongoing and exponential as they allow the livelihood of what they do to shape their sound and experience.

Ashley Heath and Her Heathens

Ashley Heath and Her Heathens are a six piece Americana Band from Asheville, NC starting in May 2016. Heath will be releasing her Sophomore album “Where Hope Never Dies” in November 2017 and will be the first album titled under the full band.

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Loud Sludge Post Rock from Brooklyn
Fleetwood’s Faves-Do not miss this show!
A Deer A Horse
http://www.adeerahorse.com/

Heavy Dark Wave
Harriers of Discord
https://harriersofdiscord.bandcamp.com/

Thresher
https://thresher.bandcamp.com/

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Don’t miss our RuPaul Drag Race :: Season 11 – Viewing Party!

Who are YOU rooting for?!
*EVERY* Thursday at Banks Ave. we are having a viewing party and show hosted by Ginger Von Snap!

9pm airtime
10:30pm showtime

This week featuring Ginger Von Snap, Cory Caleb Chanel Iman & Ricky Haggerty Knight-Addams.

All ages until 11pm! Must have parent if under 18, with ID’s.

#dragshow #RuPauldragrace #drinks #dance

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Sarah Shook And The Disarmers at The Grey Eagle

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Catch Lil Meow Meow Plays your favorite R&B and Rap jams every Thursday night! No cover. Party at Aux from 10pm-2am.

https://www.facebook.com/events/503021823559298/?event_time_id=503021846892629

Genre: Rock
Cover: $5 Suggested Cash Donation @ Door
Show: 10PM
Ages: 21+

The Groove Orient

The musical collective known at The Groove Orient started out as a school project that developed into a journey to create and perform live music around the world while transforming the musical landscape of their hometown.

Founded in 2013, The Groove Orient was assembled to perform a one-time show for the WPRK college radio station music festival, Fox Fest. With the success of the show, one week later they found themselves in the Full Sail University recording studios cutting their first single titled “Rush.” That summer, the band began writing music and rehearsing several times a week, eventually landing themselves a weekly residency at one of Orlando’s top live music bars, Tanqueray’s. You can still find the
band here every Tuesday night they are in town!

The following year, The Groove Orient released two EP’s titled “Welcome to the Show” and “Generation Y” which launched multiple nationwide tours with the goal of spreading their music far and wide. During this time, the band was awarded Best Experimental Act and Best Jazz Act by Orlando Weekly’s Best of Orlando Guide. They have been getting crowds to Rock n Roll from Suwannee Hulaween to Orange Blossom Jamboree, Hometeam New Year’s Rally and everywhere in between.

The Groove Orient is set to release their debut full-length, self-titled album this December followed by a national tour in support of the record. To pre-order the new record visit – https://www.pledgemusic.com/artists/thegrooveorient

Harry Ong- Vocals/Bass
Tommy Shugart- Vocals/Hammond Organ/Keyboards/Electric Guitar
Chuck Magid- Vocals/Electric/Acoustic Guitar
David Vanegas- Vocals/Percussion/Bass
Aaron “Bucky” Buckingham- Drums/Vocals

web: http://www.thegrooveorient.com/

vid: https://youtu.be/wVMDqHjrRj8

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For healthy eaters, home growers, and farmers—Join us for our 26th Year!

Date: March 8-10, 2019

We’re thrilled to be at a New Venue – Mars Hill University
20 minutes North of Downtown Asheville
Exit 11 off of Highway 26 West
Free & Easy Parking
Larger, More Accessible & Connect Indoor Spaces

Cost: Early Registration Discount until January 31:
$59 for Saturday, $49 for Sunday, $99 for both.

Pre-conference workshops are $70 without conference registration, $55 with conference registration.

After January 31:
$74 for Saturday, $64 for Sunday, and $129 for Saturday and Sunday.

Learn More: https://organicgrowersschool.org/conferences/spring/

We’re offering a Kid’s Program this year! Read more here: https://organicgrowersschool.org/conferences/spring/2019-kids-program/

The Spring Conference offers practical, regionally specific workshops on organic growing, permaculture, homesteading, urban farming, and rural living plus a trade show, seed exchange, silent auction, children’s program, and pre-conference, on-farm events. More than 70 sessions per day in 17 educational tracks:
Community Food
Cooking
Earth Skills
Farming: Beginning
Farming: Advanced
Gardening
Herbs
Homesteading
Livestock
Mushrooms
Permaculture
Pollinators
Poultry
Soils
Sustainable Forestry
Sustainable Living
Thinking Big

The Organic Growers School Spring Conference is a one-of-a-kind event that brings people of all walks of life together for a weekend of learning and networking. Since 1993, the Spring Conference has been the best way to kick-off the season.

As the largest grassroots conferences of its kind in the region, Organic Growers School has served to reinforce Western North Carolina’s role as a regional leader in sustainable food and farming. Attendees come from 18 states and Canada, and have described the event as a kick start to the growing season.

https://www.facebook.com/events/424536731414226/

Finding, Buying, & Loving the Land— Site Assessment & Land Design for Farmers, Homesteaders, and Land Seekers

WITH PETER BANE

How do you read the potential of a piece of property? Learn what the realtors, developers, and sellers won’t tell you. In this all-day workshop, we will develop land literacy through a permaculture lens, learning a sophisticated set of tools for assessment and design. Invaluable whether you are planning to you buy land or want to assess and learn how to work land you already own. We come at this from three directions:

Finding the Land: What’s valuable now and over the long-term? What factors are immutable and what can you change, and with how much effort? What’s on the site and what’s not but still matters? We’ll look at slope, aspect, sun, altitude, climate (rain, temps, wind, frost dates, microclimates), tree cover and other vegetation, wildlife, water, market value, location, road access, neighbors, ease of development, soil, and structures.

Buying the Land: How much land do you need and how much can you actually manage? What things are important to know and what’s hidden in land contracts? We’ll discuss your highest intentions for the land and your financial situation, ownership options such as fee simple or collective title, and development potential. We will explore other creative land access choices including leasing and sharing, and the steps in buying.

Loving Your Land: What are the observation skills you must have as you approach and learn to live on your land? We will discuss how to engage with what you find while moving toward your goals. No matter how well you evaluate land in advance of purchase, some things can only be discerned after you spend time working on the site. Specifically you’ll learn to create a list of priorities, discern existing patterns and set others that will help you live and work harmoniously, decide on housing options and temporary structures, make the most efficient steps first, and discover the must-start soil fertility and forest management strategies for getting earliest returns.

Stewarding land is like a marriage: there is only so much you will be able to change about your land partner. It will have its own values and ideas! Learn the myriad considerations that go into meeting your land-based goals. As we move towards regenerative management, this skillset is the foundation of all our future endeavors.

Peter Bane
Peter Bane is the author of The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country, a distillation of more than 25 years’ experience in the art and science of land management, and published Permaculture Activist magazine from 1990-2015. Familiar with tropical and temperate systems in North America, Hawaii, and the Caribbean, Peter has taught more than 1500 students in 100 courses spread widely across the US, Canada, and as far afield as Chile, Argentina and Trinidad-Tobago, for more than 25 years. In 2009, Peter co-authored a report, “Redefining Prosperity” on prospects and policy recommendations for the city of Bloomington, IN in an energy-constrained future. Its recommendations were adopted by Bloomington Common Council. He holds the Diploma of Permaculture Design variously for teaching, media, site design, trusteeship, and community development from the Permaculture Institute – USA (2014), the British Academy Worknet (2005) and the Permaculture Institute of North America (2016). He helped create Earthaven Ecovillage in Western North Carolina, pioneered suburban farming in Bloomington, Indiana, and is now living in rural Michigan.

https://www.facebook.com/events/266915880673452/

Integrated Animal Agriculture—Incorporating Livestock into your Farm & Homestead

with MEREDITH LEIGH

Two of the drastic results, over the last 50 years, of taking the animals off the farm are confinement animal feeding operations (CAFO’s) and massive use of chemical fertilizer (for plants), both of which produce environmental disasters and unsatisfactory conditions for all involved. Livestock production was historically integrated on the same farms that grew vegetable crops. These elegant systems provided a closed loop for animal, plant, and human nutrients that cannot be replicated in any other way.

The solution to environmental and economic disasters? Bring the animals back to the farm and homestead! Join author, farmer, butcher, and activist Meredith Leigh and learn to re-integrate plant and animal agriculture, on the homestead or the commercial farm. The day-long workshop consists of these components:

Designing your Integrated System: Discover pastured animal systems including rotational grazing, silvopasture and others; animals and breeds to choose for health, vitality, and smooth integration into your current system; rising consumer demand for grass-fed animal products; and other production techniques and tips.
Building Soil: As farmers we are primarily soil builders. Learn to assess the many tools we have for remineralizing soil, from no-till to compost teas to animal impact. All while keeping in mind how to keep the balance of saving our backs and our bank accounts.
Tools & Skills: Walk away with tools for managing land with animals using systems thinking and practical information about cutting edge production techniques. Most importantly, growers will be provided with support and tools to juggle the real world implications, and power, of raising both plants and animals in a world that needs them now more than ever.

Integration of animals not only supports the production of local, healthy, humane, and grass fed meats and milk but also promotes healthy soil and better nutrient cycling at every stage of the growing life cycle, including human nutrition. Get started with animals now!

Meredith Leigh has, over the past 17 years, worked as a farmer, butcher, author, cook, and educator, all in pursuit of sustainable food. She focuses on supply chain dynamics and systems thinking geared towards the entire food life cycle. She is the author of The Ethical Meat Handbook: Complete Home Butchery Charcuterie and Cooking for the Conscious Omnivore (2015 3rd place winner, M.F.K Fisher award) and Pure Charcuterie: The Craft & Poetry of Curing Meat at Home (2017) both of which explore the roles of meat and meat eaters in the food system, both present and future. Her current project focuses on the relative health of the narrative surrounding the future of food, by applying the perspectives of the people behind our food to the business and other structures that define it.

https://www.facebook.com/events/511880145961019/

Water and Agriculture—Critical Consciousness for Healing the Planet with John and Jonathan Todd, Ocean Arks International & Todd Ecological Design

The availability, quality, and integration of water in food production is an overlooked yet central feature of food systems. Leaders in the work of water interfaces are John Todd and his son Jonathan, who combine cutting edge research with dynamic design to restore waterways all over the world as functional, living components of natural and built environments. In this full day, immersive class, witness them at work as they consider a farm pond as a case study. In the morning portion of the workshop, participants will learn the personality of water features, from chemistry to plant and animal life, and the meaning of their interactions. In the afternoon, the Todds will take years of experience and deep scientific knowledge to develop a design plan that takes advantage of the farm’s pond, while also caring for its well being. Participants will learn the application of methods the Todd’s have used worldwide – from rehabilitating city sewage treatment to creating resiliency on entire islands – living machines, polycultures, restorative riparian and aquatic native plants, beneficial fungi, and animal life. This full day workshop offers a unique opportunity to sit with both the hope and the complexity of the future facing our planet, and walk away with tangible examples for healing ecosystems, either at the farm scale, or much larger.

Dr. John Todd has been a pioneer in the field of ecological design and engineering for nearly five decades. He is the founder and president of John Todd Ecological Design. Dr. Todd has degrees in agriculture, parasitology and tropical medicine from McGill University, Montreal, and a doctorate in fisheries and ethology from the University of Michigan. His numerous honors include the 2008 Buckminster Fuller Award for the best idea/concept to help save the planet/humanity; the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chico Mendes Award and Environment Merit Award; a lifetime achievement award from the New York Open Center; Global Visionary Award from the City of Chicago; and many others. In 2007 he was named one of top 100 visionaries of the 20th century by “Resurgence & Ecologist” magazine.

Jonathan Todd is the ecological designer and driving force behind John Todd Ecological Design and was the driving force. For 19 years he oversaw the development and design of many of JTED’s most successful projects. Today Jonathan is located on the west coast and is focused on addressing the most pressing water issues in that region.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2208305589420560/

Year-Round Growing on the Farm & Garden

WITH IRA WALLACE & PAM DAWLING

Join experienced vegetable, herb, and seed growers Pam Dawling & Ira Wallace for a step-by-step approach to growing year-round. Learn the tools to manage space effectively, grow the quantities of crops when you want them, and efficiently meet your growing goals. The workshop will cover:

Defining your Market: Are you growing for yourself or for others? When and how much do you need to harvest? Learn about yields of common crops and begin to create a growing plan.
Season Extension: From transplants and row cover in the spring, to hoop houses in the winter, learn to keep crops alive through the seasons. Calculate the last worthwhile planting date in your area, and choose a suitable combination of warm weather crops, cool weather crops, storage crops and cold-hardy crops appropriate for your scale.
Temperature Resilience: Discover tips to deal with extreme hot and cold temperature ranges including getting seeds germinated, identifying crops that do well in both extremes, and the importance of crop diversification. Climate change necessitates adaptive growing practices. We will incorporate soil building and water management, as well as the importance of seed saving and variety trials.
Crop Rotation: Keep roots in the ground at all times! Learn the art of crop rotation using planting calendars, observation, and garden planning. Discover relay planting, cover cropping, isolation distances, plants to attract pollinators, as well as tricks for fitting minor crops into available spaces.

Pam Dawling
Pam Dawling is the author of the book Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres, published in February 2013 by New Society Publishers. She also writes for Growing for Market magazine. Pam manages the crew who grow vegetables at Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia, where the gardens feed 100 people on 3.5 acres. She blogs at www.sustainablemarketfarming.com.

Ira Wallace
Ira Wallace is a worker/owner of the cooperatively managed Southern Exposure Seed Exchange which offers over 700 varieties of open-pollinated heirloom and organic seeds selected for flavor and regional adaptability. Southern Exposure helps people keep control of their food supply by supporting sustainable home and market gardening, seed saving, and preserving heirloom varieties. Ira serves on the boards of the Organic Seed Alliance, the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association and the Virginia Association for Biological Farming (VABF). In addition, Ira is a member of Acorn Community which farms over 60 acres of certified organic land in Central Virginia, growing seeds, alliums, hay, and conducting variety trials for Southern Exposure. She is an organizer of the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello, a fun, family-friendly event featuring an old-time seed swap, local food, hands-on workshops and demos, and more. She presents at events throughout the southeast. She currently writes about heirloom vegetable varieties for magazines and blogs including Mother Earth News, Fine Gardening and Southern Exposure. She also conducts variety trials for Southern Exposure Seed Exchange as well as researching and documenting the history of varieties offered in the annual catalog. Her book, The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast, is available online and at booksellers everywhere.

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