Square dance fundraiser scheduled for Saturday Asheville, NC Citizen-Times, May 25, 2010
Beginning at 5 p.m. May 29 will be a square dance fundraiser featuring The Martin Fox Bluegrass Band, with caller Franklin Sides. The event will be held at Sherrill’s Inn at Hickory Nut Gap Farm, U.S. 74A. Everyone should bring a dish to share for the potluck dinner. The event will also include a silent auction, pony cart rides, games, and tours of Sherrill’s Inn.
This is a fundraiser for The Lord’s Acre, a vegetable garden that was started in Fairview last year and has supplied food to Food for Fairview, MANNA FoodBank, Society of St. Andrew and the veterans home on Tunnel Road. The aim is to supply fresh organic vegetables to those in need. Three tons of food was grown on a quarter-of-an-acre last year.
The Lord’s Acre attributes its success to many volunteers, generous donations and garden managers Susan and Franklin Sides.
Suggested donation is $10/individual and $20/family. For more information call 231-7496 or visit thelordsacre.com.
Hey Michelle Obama: Here’s where to get some ideas for that White House garden in the Asheville area Asheville, NC Citizen-Times, April 23, 2010
“…Asheville’s nonprofit Bountiful Cities Project (www.bountifulcities blog.blogspot.com) has a hand in 14 gardens around town, including the Pearson Garden in the Montford neighborhood, just a skip and a jump from the Grove Park Inn. Since the nonprofit is dedicated in part to reducing obesity by improving access to fresh produce, the folks there will have much to discuss with Mrs. Obama.
One of the gardens associated with Bountiful Cities is the Lord’s Acre community garden (www.thelordsacre.org). It’s an entirely volunteer project that produces many tons of fresh-grown food for distribution to needy families.
If the first lady wants to get an early start and some real hands-on tips for her garden and meet a bunch of great local people with big hearts and busy rakes, she could drop by for Saturday’s volunteer day. They start at 8 a.m.
Lord’s Acre is off U.S. 74A, aka Charlotte Highway, in Fairview — right down the road from my house. And there’s nothing better after a morning’s work in the garden than a tall glass of freshly brewed mint sweet tea.”
WLOS Asheville, NC News Report May 2009
WLOS Asheville, NC News Report July 2009
