Ten years ago, the Asheville Art Museum sponsored an exhibit by a group of fiber artists from Latin America. In an effort to broaden the scope of the exhibit, the museum, along with the Asheville branch of Catholic Social Services, decided to expand the events around the visit to include a more in-depth look at […]
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Small Bites
Most chefs probably get their fill of whining, crying and screaming from their customers, but the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project is trying to recruit a few local chefs to work with an even harder-to-please audience: children. The Growing Minds seminar on Thursday, Oct. 4, is designed to train chefs to create an engaging cooking curriculum […]
Mother knows best
In the past century, society’s understanding and use of technology have undergone a profound transformation. Rapid advancements in mechanical, chemical and electronic technologies have fueled unprecedented economic and population growth worldwide. And in recent years, new information, network and media technologies have changed almost every aspect of how we live, work, play, learn and communicate. […]
Eating local
Whether driven by health consciousness, energy awareness, parochialism, fear of tainted Chinese imports or all of the above, Western North Carolina residents are showing increased interest in locally produced food. That, at least, is the conclusion of a five-year assessment conducted by the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project. No middlewoman: Local growers forge a direct connection […]
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Garden Journal
Queen (or king) bee needed: The Asheville City Market, in connection with Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, is looking for a manager for its new producer-only destination farmers’ market in downtown Asheville. The half-time position will start this fall. Organizers say they want a diplomatic communicator who is organized, detail-oriented and an innovative thinker, with experience […]
No Reservations
The Story: A temperamental chef finds herself saddled with an orphaned niece and an unwanted sous-chef she thinks wants her job. The Lowdown: An OK diversion that's never as moving or as funny as it thinks it is, and ultimately just feels a little phony.
Adventures in local food
Without a doubt, “Local Food: Thousands of Miles Fresher” is one of the most popular bumper stickers in Western North Carolina. Born of the Local Food Campaign launched by the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project some seven years ago, the bumper sticker is the sort of mantra I’m proud to sport on my car. And like […]
Care and feeding of the nation’s favorite trail
My husband I maintain a 4.9-mile piece of the Appalachian Trail from Rice Gap to Devils Fork Gap along the Tennessee border. We clip brush that’s obstructing the trail, pick up garbage, weed-whack the sides of the trail and refresh the white blazes. When we run into something we can’t handle, we go up a […]
A family affair
In a world where imported products often seem more the rule than the exception, a group of Madison County growers and crafters is rowing against the tide. Under the banner of Madison Family Farms, these go-local activists are marketing homegrown produce and value-added products and forging links with local institutional buyers. Getting their feet wet: […]
Cold valley
The successful historical novel is a bit like a traditional patchwork quilt, composed of bits and remnants of material pieced together to create something new. Aunt Sally’s dress fabric meets Jimmy’s suit and Mama’s curtains and those matching shirts Sis made for the twins: Each piece brings its own stories, and the whole assemblage becomes […]
Growing smaller with thyme
“Betty started this business in 1982 and it’s gone through a lot of transitions.” The speaker is Alan Salmon. Betty Sparrow is his wife and co-grower at Wildwood Herbal Flower Farm, a small-scale nursery a stone’s throw from the Zebulon Vance birthplace on Reems Creek Road in Weaverville. Hands on: Alan Salmon delivers plants and […]
Small Bites
Shavuot, the Jewish holiday which commemorates the day the Torah was given at Mount Sinai, is almost always celebrated with a meal of dairy-derived foods. Nobody knows exactly why: According to Orthodox scholar Avraham Sutton, whose posted his thoughts at desiretoshare.com, the connection might have something to do with the ancient Jews’ sudden realization upon […]
When bees sneeze
Black Mountain beekeeper Ed Buchanan has lost 150 of his 400 hives in the past two years. “Part of it was starvation,” he says. “We didn’t have a good fall flow of goldenrod and aster. The other part was due to CCD.” (Colony collapse disorder is a mysterious malady that’s wiping out honeybees on at […]
Forget the tiramisu — have a MoonPie
The term “Southern food” is a “magnetizing” one, notes Matt Lee. “People definitely take a position” on Southern fare, he says. “It makes people feel like insiders if they have a connection to the South and they love Southern food. And if they don’t, they’re either drawn to it or repulsed by it—but either way, […]
Buzzworm news briefs
Buncombe 1, Asheville 0 A Wake County Superior Court ruling earlier this month dismissed the city’s attempt to overturn state legislation that prohibits Asheville from charging different water rates for customers outside the city limits. But the ruling by Judge Howard E. Manning Jr. also lambastes state legislators for giving Buncombe County preferential treatment, which […]
Letters to the editor
Quite a slide Your “Slippery Slopes” articles [Nov. 22 Xpress] covering the concerns with the overdevelopment of our beautiful mountains hit on my growing heartbreak as I witness these rapid changes here in Western North Carolina. I have lived in this area for over 23 years now, and I feel such a deep-heart connection to […]
Growing a gardener
A healthy volunteer squash. photo by Cecil Bothwell I am not a fastidious gardener. Looking over my backyard jumble as I compose these words, I can well imagine a reader peering over my shoulder and sneering, “You write about this stuff?” I easily retort: “This is the garden I have always dreamed of growing, exactly […]
Letters to the editor
This is our moment We are at that “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” place in regards to mountainside development in Buncombe County, when decency and honesty are all that can save the day. And hundreds of citizens are using their power of free speech to let our government officials know that approving steep-slope development plans […]
Tiny helpers
A single tablespoon of garden soil contains billions of bacteria, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. That’s right: billions. Furthermore, research conducted in the last two decades has revealed that bacteria inhabit every stratum of rock as deep as drills have penetrated. These hypersuccessful, single-celled beings are critically involved in all other life on earth: The […]
Shrimp trawls and smokehouses
At its heart, Southern food is a tapestry of flavors, the result of a complex weaving together of the various cultural and regional cuisines that developed throughout the South’s elaborate history. Consider, for example, the food of the Southeastern Lowcountry, a region of lush estuaries and marshes and generous expanses of coastline. The distinctive cuisine […]