Sustainability: Local Food/Food
 
Here’s a more literally “juicy” section that contains information especially about local foods produced in our region, foods with enhanced freshness and nutritional value. You’ll find offerings about gardening and cooking, recipes by local chefs, caterers, restaurants, and home kitchens.
Featured Links:
Sheville Staff
Everything we sell at Bee Log Farm is Certified Naturally Grown which means we follow organic practices to give you healthy vegetables and plants. We believe in supporting families and communities by bringing the small farm to your home. Farm fresh...bring it to your dinner table tonight! more...
News or Press Release
Divine Nourishment, A Woman’s Sacred Journey with Food connects the dots between the food revolution that is going on worldwide, living and cooking seasonally aligned with the Earth’s wisdom, and the healing and reclamation of the Divine Feminine. more...
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Black Mountain, NC – Women from across the Southeast will gather at the 6th annual Southeast Women’s Herbal Conference on October 1-3, at Lake Eden. With over 60 classes by more than 30 teachers, more...
Sheville Staff
Ostara Farm is a small family farm in rural Yancey County, NC. We are working to establish permaculture-based systems that are grounded in the feminine, and are incorporating elements of biodynamics and intensively planting our no-till raised growing beds. more...
J. Lee Lehman
In the November/December 2009 issue, Mother Jones reports on the rebranding of various trash fish to change them from unutilized to trendy fish fashions. What makes a fish a trash fish? Either some unpleasant property, or something else that fishermen for years figured was not worth catching. In our overpopulated times, apparently everything is worth catching. Interestingly, some of these former trash fish have become so popular through rebranding that
now they are endangered from overfishing. But it's up to you as to whether you want to eat them! more...
Sheville Staff
Look for the Appalachian Grown logo when you shop or eat out...
and find food that's thousands of miles fresher.
The Appalachian Grown symbol is displayed with farm products grown or raised in Western North Carolina and the southern Appalachian mountains. When you see the Appalachian Grown logo, you know you’re buying fresher foods that support family farms, strengthen the local economy, preserve rural culture, and protect the natural beauty of the Appalachian mountains.
more...
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A Local Food and Farm Map for western
North Carolina and neighboring areas of the mountains is now available. The
map shows the location of 40 farmers' markets, multiple grocers and restaurants
featuring locally-grown food, and 90 farms that welcome visitors. The reverse
of the map offers a description and contact information for each farm and business.
It is about two feet wide and folded to typical road map size.The map was researched,
produced, and distributed by Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP),
the organization that also creates the popular Local Food Guide. more...
Denise Barratt
Confused whether to go organic or local? Let your taste buds lead the way! Not only are many of the local farms using no chemicals to grow their food but when we buy local we are putting money right back into our local economy rather than thousands of miles away. more...
G. Leigh Wilkerson
Apples need them. North Carolina blueberries need them too. Cucumbers, squash, melons, strawberries, and watermelons all share the same small yellow-and-black requirement. Honeybees that is, lots of them. more...
Ellenburg
It was canning and freezing season, after the harvest, a beautiful late summer day. Her husband, Cecil was alive, but ill. “I hate to be a burden to you,” he told her, as he grew weaker and weaker with emphysema. “Don’t you say nothing,” she told him. “I’d rather wheel you around in that wheel barraw than be here without you.”. more...
G. Leigh Wilkerson
When I first started gardening in Yancey County the weekly trips to Troy's Greenhouse were more about talking with Wade as he worked behind the counter than buying marigolds or potting soil. My Grandmother's green thumb--wisdom on what to do in burning sun and Alabama clay--didn't translate to the cool fog and sandy soils of South Toe. more...
G. Leigh Wilkerson
The tomato vines were lush and chest high, the best I'd ever grown in my three years of vegetable gardening. The leaves were dark green and unblemished, the picture of plant vitality. My secret, I had decided, was a generous shovel of year-old compost every two weeks. more...
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Featured Farm: Bee Log Farm and Nursery 
Divine Nourishment, A Woman’s Sacred Journey with Food by Mary Lane
Ostara Farm
Appalachian Grown - Tailgates and Local Food Guide
Appalachian Herbalist: A Profile