I’m visiting Asheville for a waterharvesting workshop in late April.  I have a free afternoon/evening and would be interested in visiting some permaculture/sustainability/community gardening activities in the area.  The workshop I am attending is at Kleiwerks, and since I assume I’ll see their setup as part of the workshop, I’d like to focus my free day elsewhere.  Any suggestions?

Thanks, Ray

May I suggest the Edaco junkyard in West Asheville?

The landfill (we not allowed to call it the ‘city dump’ any mo) down beyond Alexander is always fun. And you can pick up lots of useful items.

Serious reply?

Check out some of the projects at Warren Wilson, the Arboretum and talk to our award-winning enviro reporter, Rebecca Bowe, at rbowe at mountainx.com.

You saying the landfill is NOT serious? ... why do people always have to trash it? I’m tired of that garbage. Let’s end this crap of not respecting refuse. Debris is not litter, it’s good honest waste!

Junkyards are a different matter. Junk is merely garbage that has not found it’s final dump yet.

You need not respect junk.