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Tour a Farm with Bison, Watusi Cattle, Elk, Deer, and Camels

Tuesdays-Saturdays, Year-Round, weather permitting … Enjoy a 90-minute tractor-led haywagon tour of Dr. King’s Farms, nestled amidst the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.

Dr. King’s Farm Tours

From Soil to Sustenance

Dr. King’s Farms encompass a breathtaking total of 500 acres in Leicester, N.C., just 15 minutes from downtown Asheville. The farm is home for American Buffalo (Bison), the rare White Bison, rare Black Bison, milking Camels, African Watusi, North American Elk, Himalayan Yak, and Deer. In our tours, visitors experience, up close and personal, animals raised on top-quality native grasses and pure mountain water as they graze freely in open pastures surrounded by the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Bring your coolers to take back some Bison, Elk, Organic Beef, Yak or natural bacon for some of your best and most memorable eating experiences.

Reservations Required for Tours

Group tours and discounts are available. Our tour season is year round, weather permitting. We can work with you on scheduling.

We are a working farm and need to know at least 24 hours in advance if you plan on touring with us so we can best accommodate your group. Tours start promptly at 10 AM Tuesday through Saturday and last an average of one and a half hours.

4th Annual Festival of Fun

DEADLINE TO REGISTER YOUR KID BUSINESS IS AUGUST 15th!

It’s back folks… the Dancing Bear Kidzone!

The Kidzone is a section of Fun Fest reserved for kid businesses.  We welcome all kinds of young entrepreneurs- from lemonade stands to on-demand interpretive dances.  Every kid has a special talent, and we want to help them showcase it!  Running their own business is a great way to boost kids’ confidence and teach awesome life skills like budgeting, time management, social skills, responsibility, and much more!

All you need is an idea!

Ask your kid what they’re really, really good at.  What do they love to do?  The sky’s the limit- if your kid wants to sell rides in her imaginary spaceship, go for it!  Be silly!  Have fun with it!  Here are some ideas to get you started:

  • Crafts- friendship bracelets, jewelry, potholders, pinch pots, soap, tissue paper flowers, personalized dinosaur drawings
  • Food- lemonade stands, bake sales, homemade dog treats, etc.
  •  Services- fortune telling, poetry on demand, iPhone lessons, dog walking, musical farting, ninja lessons
  • Performances- is your child a musician?  A stand-up comedian?  We’d be happy to host a performance- just let us know!

We recommend that you keep your goods and services under $5 for Fun Fest, but we’re always open to exceptions.

What’s the next step?

Interested in participating?  Fill out their form no later than August 15th.

Foot Rx Family Trail Series – The Herd takes to the Trails

The Foot Rx Family Trail Series – The Herd takes to the Trails!

The Foot Rx Family Trail Series will take place every Saturday Morning at 8:30 am in July on the campus of Asheville School.  This series will offer a 1k and 5k trail running course for families to explore and enjoy trail running together in a fun atmosphere.  Runners/walkers of all ages and abilities are encouraged to come out and enjoy  family running time.

The Course at Asheville School – is beautiful, rolling, with a variety of terrain.  There will be two distances offered.
Series participants will receive a shirt.  All finishers will receive a ribbon.  Water and Fruit will be provided.

Event details and schedule

8:00 am – Registration Opens

8:30 am – 5k and 1k Starts

REI Free Weekend Celebration at Carrier Park

July 30th & 31st 9am-1pm

At the REI Co-op, our not-so-secret goal has always been to help people get outside. That’s why we’re offering a weekend of free REI Outdoor School classes across the country, and celebrating at Carrier Park on July 30 and 31! Learn valuable skills from REI’s outdoor experts at Carrier Park inside the MelloDrome. Take a break from your running, biking or hiking while you fuel yourself with free energy snacks from Clif, Nuun and Aloe Gator and relax in our trailside lounge. Get expert tips on Fix- A- Flat, Trail and Roadside bike repair and Stove and Water Filtration and also a free yoga class Sunday morning. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned adventurer, we hope you’ll join us to learn new skills, make new friends and be reminded that we can all find common ground in the outdoors. Registration recommended.

STEM Olympics

Straw Rocket Launching at the Etowah Library with Engineering For Kids – Asheville. “Using the engineering design process, we will ASK, BRAINSTORM, DESIGN, BUILD, TEST & IMPROVE our straw rockets, then launch rockets to try to land within a target zone to win points and medals”.
For rising grades 6-9.
Pre Registration Required. Call 828-891-6577 to sign up.

Basic Cooking Skills for Kids (9+yrs)

KIDS COOKING CLASSES!
July 22nd 9am-12pm: Applesauce
July 26th 9am-12pm: Breads
July 27th 9am-12pm: Eggs
Aug 4th 9am-12pm: Jerky

Basic Cooking Skills for Kids at the NC Cooperative Extension, Henderson County Center in Hendersonville. Minimum age 9. $5 per class. Contact Renay, Ivy, or Barbara at 828-697-4891 to learn more and register.

Pre-Registration Required

Hi-Wire Brewing Big Top 1 Year Anniversary Party

Family friendly event to celebrate HiWire’s Big Top 1 year anniversay. Join us for facepainting, tarot readings, stilt walker, aerialist and our doubles trapeze team…Beauty & the Beast. Showtimes are 5:30, 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30pm. Stick around for Unifire after dark.

Additionally, we will be pouring eight never to be seen again sour beers, and releasing the Third Anniversary Beer, a Bottle Conditioned Gin-Barrel Fermented Tart Wild Ale Brewed with Lemongrass in 750 ml, cork and caged bottles.

As always we’ll have amazing eats by our permanent food truck, Foothills Local Meast.

This will be a party not to be missed!

Serafina Event – Barnes & Noble Biltmore Park

Join New York Times bestselling author Robert Beatty to celebrate the release of his new book, SERAFINA AND THE TWISTED STAFF, the highly anticipated sequel to last year’s runaway hit set at Biltmore Estate. Published by Disney Hyperion, this exciting mystery-thriller for young readers (8+) and adults follows the story of an unusual cat-like girl who lives at Biltmore Estate amidst the opulence of the Gilded Age and the rugged beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

THE 2016 SUMMER TOUR! This special event includes a presentation by the author, Q&A, free food & drink, a book signing, costumed characters, Serafina Dark Forest ice cream from The Hop, lots of Serafina giveaways, and the opportunity to meet the author and fans of Disney Hyperion’s newest book series.

Early praise from the prestigious Kirkus Reviews says SERAFINA AND THE TWISTED STAFF is “Even better than its predecessor, a sequel that delivers nonstop thrills from beginning to end.” (Starred Review) You can watch the exciting new book trailer here: http://bit.ly/1UovAES

Since its release last year, the first book, SERAFINA AND THE BLACK CLOAK, has been on the New York Times Best Sellers List for 20 weeks. It has also appeared on the best seller lists of Publisher’s Weekly, USA TODAY, Barnes & Noble, Amazon and independent bookstores. It was selected by the Southern Independent Booksellers Association as representing the “best in Southern literature,” and has won many honors on Goodreads.com. Recently, it was named as a finalist for the prestigious 2016 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize. A fast favorite for teachers and students, the book is being taught in hundreds of classrooms across the nation and has appeared on summer reading and Battle of the Books lists.

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