The North Carolina Arboretum is ablaze with color in fall, and the North Carolina Chrysanthemum Society’s Annual Show, held October 17 and 18, is a perfect occasion to celebrate the fall foliage season.
This year will be very special, as the local chapter hosts the National Chrysanthemum Society Annual Show.

This week highlights the West Asheville Garden Stroll, grant funding for greener foods at three local elementary schools, and the state’s focus on food safety.

Fresh, local tomatoes make for great street food, and a tasty feature for sit-down meals: It’s the Thursday, Aug. 20, Tomato Walk, starring local ‘maters and local eats at Bouchon, Early Girl Eatery, Ed Boudreaux’s, Laurey’s, The Lobster Trap, The Market Place, Posana Café and Rosetta’s Kitchen.

On Friday, July 24, and Saturday, July 25, the Western North Carolina Alliance needs volunteers to help clear a section of the Cheoah River near Robbinsville of invasive exotic species such as bittersweet. Invasives threaten a native species, Virginia spiraea.

An excerpt from the blog of Jennifer Lapidus, project coordinator of the N.C. Organic Bread Flour Project (photo by D. Kaleb Rathbone):

Help ArtSpace get a $10,000 Good Food Grant by going online and voting. But hurry: There’s a June 18 deadline.

It’s tailgate-market time in WNC.

May 14, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., N.C. Arboretum Bonsai Curator Arthur Joura will explain exactly what’s intended by the Southern Appalachian bonsai concept.