Garden Journal

Posted on by Cecil Bothwell

Go local: The following WNC farmer’s markets will be open soon:
Tue, Thu & Sat mornings: Hendersonville Curb Mkt. (Church St.)
Tue & Thu mornings: Canton Tailgate Mkt. (Park St.)
Wed, Fri & Sun afternoons: Greenlife Grocery (Merrimon Ave.)
Wed & Sat mornings: Asheville Downtown Tailgate Mkt. (BioWheels/French Broad Food Co-op parking lot); Waynesville Tailgate Mkt. (Walnut & Main)
Wed afternoons: West Asheville Tailgate Mkt. (next to West Asheville Bakery), Spruce Pine Tailgate Mkt. (between Upper and Lower Streets, downtown).
Sat mornings: Bakersville Farmer’s Mkt. (Hemlock Drive, near the only traffic light in town); Black Mountain (behind SunTrust Bank); Madison County Farmers & Artisans Mkt. (across from Mars Hill College football field); Riceville Community Market; Henderson County Tailgate Mkt., (100 N. King St., Hendersonville).
Daily: Portico Market, Grove Arcade, Asheville; WNC Farmer’s Market, intersection of I-26 and I-40, West Asheville

Kids’ classes: Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project will kick off its Head Start gardening effort, part of its Growing Minds initiative, with a parent’s night on Thursday, March 29. The project will help one Head Start center establish a garden, take students on farm field trips, deliver healthy cooking classes and help Head Start centers source locally grown food to be served through their food service. Growing Minds is partially funded by the Community Foundation of WNC.

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About Cecil Bothwell
A writer for Mountain Xpress since three years before there WAS an MX--back in the days of GreenLine. Former managing editor of the paper, founding editor of the Warren Wilson College environmental journal, Heartstone, member of the national editorial board of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, publisher of Brave Ulysses Books, radio host of "Blows Against the Empire" on WPVM-LP 103.5 FM, co-author of the best selling guide Finding your way in Asheville. Lives with three cats, macs and cacti. His other car is a canoe. Paints, plays music and for the past five years has been researching and soon to publish a critical biography--Billy Graham: Prince of War:
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