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4-H Introduction to Biotechnology (Middle & High School Students)

5:00-7:00 pm monthly
September 2016 – February 2017

Overview: Through a series of short courses students will gain a basic understanding of biotechnology including the definition, branches, importance to society, careers, and hands-on laboratory exercises.  Biofuels, fermentation science, genetic engineering,  agriculture and GMOs, DNA science and forensics will be discussed.  Students will meet local scientists who are developing crops that thrive in Western North Carolina.

 

Instructor: Jennifer Allsbrook, jalls@polkschools.org , 828-243-8030

Scholarships are available.  Class will fill on a first-come, first-served basis.

Schedule:  September 22 – tour Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center.  Dress for the weather.
October 6,  November 3,  December 1, January 5  and February 2

Click  here for the registration form.

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“The Hybrid Mind: The More High-Tech Our Lives Become, the More Nature We Need.”: An Evening with Richard Louv

Richard Louv, author of nine books about the connections between family, nature and community including Last Child in the Woods, The Nature Principle, and, most recently, Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature Rich Life, will speak at the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain. The title of his talk is “The Hybrid Mind: The more high-tech our lives become, the more nature we need.” The event will be held at 7:00 pm in the Washburn Center. The program will also include a question and answer session followed by a book signing. Vitamin N, his latest book, will be available for purchase at the event.

The evening is being sponsored by the Environmental Educators of North Carolina (EENC) as a preconference event for the organization’s 25th Anniversary Conference which will be held at the Blue Ridge Assembly September 23 – 25. EENC members can attend the presentation for free!  Admission for non-EENC members is $10.00.

You must register to attend this event!  Even if you are have already registered for the EENC conference.  Please complete the registration form below.

Parking is limited at the Blue Ridge Assembly, so we strongly encourage carpooling. The YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly is located at: 84 Blue Ridge Assembly Drive Black Mountain, NC 28711

To register multiple people at once, choose the Multiple Registrants or Groups option. There will be an option for you to choose additional tickets and enter the desired number of tickets. You will receive one total amount due.

Contact Shannon Culpepper at sdculpepper@gmail.com with any questions.

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Visit a Working Farm

Open June – November – 9 am – 6 pm (Call Ahead in November)

 

Lyda Farms in Hendersonville. Open Daily June-November. Additionally, “the farm has family fun activities, including a self-guided tour around the barnyard to observe farm animals in a working farm setting, an authentic fresh fruit and vegetable roadside market, some great photo opportunities, an outdoor picnic area, and Juicy, The Giant Apple Bug.

In the fall, we have crispy North Carolina Apples straight from the orchard plus a large variety of pumpkins and winter squash that are great for eating or decorating (Available Early September to Late November.)”

Be sure to ask for a FREE kids coloring book while you’re there!

Learn more and see the picking schedule: http://bit.ly/LydaFarms

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Movie in the Park/Halloween Carnival

5:30-7:30pm Carnival /8:00pm Movie

ENJOY FUN CARNIVAL GAMES, INFLATABLES AND TREATS AND DAY OF THE DEAD FESTIVITIES … THEN STAY FOR THE MOVIE ‘COCO’ ON THE BIG SCREEN

Please bring a chair or blanket

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Pumpkin Fest at Silvermont Park

First 4 Fridays and Saturdays in Oct 2025!

Family friendly and fantastic artistic fun or great date night with beautiful lighted carved pumpkin displays on a short walking trail, local musicians, food trucks, games, storytelling, face painting, white squirrel scavenger hunt, historic mansion open. Fine gravel trail for strollers and wheelchairs. Fundraiser for Friends of Silvermont to help park and historic mansion.

Free parking offsite on nearby streets and parking lots one or two blocks away.

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7th Annual Sweet Potato Cooking Contest, Fundraiser and Fall Open

It is that time of year again when the stirrings of the season change brings our minds to daydreaming about cool autumn days, cozy nights and nourishing food. It also brings our farm fresh sweet potatoes from their hiding places under the ground to our annual sweet potato cooking contest!
However, this year we are breaking tradition! I am bringing the farm to the city! We will be holding this years 7th Annual Sweet Potato Cooking Contest along side our Fall Open House at The Homegrown Families Health and Education Center! We will have outdoor tents, live music with R&B band Westsound 2000, bouncy houses for the kids, lots of amazing food and beautiful prizes! You know the schpeel ~ invite your friends, enter a dish to win, come to taste, judge and dance into the harvest season with good friends, family and live music!

All this amazing fun with friends while simultaneously supporting an amazing non-profit in our community. This year we are supporting the Asheville Buncombe Institute of Parity Achievement. ABIPA improves health conditions for African Americans by providing education, health services and advocacy from a unique understanding of the African American experience and a demonstrated ability to increase collaboration, connection, awareness and trust across diverse segments of the community.

Contest Information and Rules:
~Sweet Potatoes must be one of the main ingredients in your dish
~There are both sweet and savory categories
~There is no fee to enter your dish for judging, but there is a five dollar per person tasting/judging/voting fee
~You must bring your own serving utensils and buffet warmer if your dish needs to be warm
~There will be limited electrical hook-up for crock-pot dishes
~All entries will remain anonymous and will be voted on by attendees
~Judging/eating begins promptly at 5:00. Any dishes brought after 5:15 will likely not have enough votes to win.
~There are fantastic prizes including organic sweet potatoes grown on our farm! There are first place prizes in both the sweet and savory categories as well as an overall most unusual/original dish

You do not have to enter to participate! We need lots of tasters too! If you are coming to solely judge, we ask you to bring a potluck dish to compliment all of the sweet potatoes!

Please bring your own libations, chairs, blankets etc. Bring anyone you like and children are most definitely welcome! We love dogs, but it is a little too much at this event to have them. Please leave your sweet pups at home!

This event also doubles as our Fall Open House. If you were not able to come in the Spring to meet all of our practioners and see our amazing space, the Health and Education Center will be open!

Thanks for your support and we look forward to celebrating the season with you!

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Michaelmas Festival

This ancient festival is associated with the beginning of autumn and the shortening of days, and celebrates harvest, human courage, and triumph of light over darkness!

Cider press and fresh cider!
Face painting
Jumprope making
Harvest Soup
Michaelmas Play!
Dragon bread
Obstacle courses

Please bring two canned goods to donate to the MANNA FoodBank.

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Brevard Music Center First Mondays Free Community Concert

First Mondays recital series is presented at no cost to the general public – October through May (excluding January) – on the first Monday of each month at Brevard College.


Brevard Music Center (BMC), in partnership with Brevard College, is pleased to announce the return of its First Mondays series of free BMC Community Concerts in Brevard. “Brevard Music Center is proud to continue our free Community Concert Series so that music lovers of all ages and means can be inspired by exquisite classical music and musicians,” said BMC President & CEO Mark Weinstein. “This popular series allows us to give back to the community that generously supports BMC’s educational mission and renowned summer music festival. Please join us!” Each First Mondays concert also features a local charity highlighting needs within the Brevard community

October 3rd : Celebrated French hornists Elizabeth Freimuth and Hazel Dean Davis will be joined by pianist Koeun Grace Lee. October’s program will include: Brahms’s Horn Songs, Mozart’s Duetta con Coro from Così Fan Tutte, Monteverdi’s Pur ti Miro from L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Fauré’s Puisqu’ici–bas toute Âme, and Kuhlau’s Concertino in F minor for Two Horns. October’s charity is Free Rein Center for Therapeutic Riding and Education.

The popular Brevard-based,  BMC’s series of free concerts in Asheville (Sundays with BMC) and Hendersonville (First Tuesdays) will resume in March through May of 2017.
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Take A Child Outside Week FREE Guided Hike

Sept 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th

Celebrate Take a Child Outside Week by joining a Park Naturalist for an interactive hike on the Park’s most family friendly trail. Kids of all ages will love exploring the Great Woodland Adventure Trail to discover what animals call Chimney Rock home. You never know who you’ll meet along the way. This program is open to all ages. Meet at the Animal Discovery Den at 10:30am. We will also be hosting Family Animal Encounters at 2pm on the Outcroppings deck.

One child’s admission is free, with one paid adult admission.

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