You may want to sit down with your daybook and plan ahead, for this weekend is jammed with things to do.

For starters, remember that each day from 1 to 6 p.m., 40 local farms are open for visitors. You can download a map of them and get more information at any Weaver Street Market or by visiting carolinafarmstewards.org. If you’re looking for a little insider guidance, turn to page 7 where Emily Buehler, who has visited many of this area’s best farms, has her picks.

Also this weekend is ClydeFest, the annual Bynum bash for ChathamArts. The Saturday festival runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. — see our back page for details or visit chathamarts.org

In town on Saturday is the annual tomato seedling giveaway at the Carrboro Farmers Market; and on Sunday, the Walk with Purpose, a fundraiser for the Mental Health Association in Orange County and Josh’s Hope Memorial Fund in memory of the late Josh Bailey.

Earth Day/Week-related events continue with a sky watch sponsored by the Morehead Planetarium from 8 to 10 p.m. at Jordan Lake’s Ebenezer Church Recreation Area. And if you haven’t checked out the Scrapel Hill exhibit at University Mall, you’re missing a treat — local artists’ unique celebration of recycling.

As with most weekends here, music is in the air, starting on Friday afternoon from 5 to 7 p.m. with a group of local songwriters including Heather McEntire, Lee Waters, Adam Price and Eric Roehrig performing a free show at the Love House at 410 E. Franklin St.

And alumni of Mammoth Records, which helped put Carrboro on the map as a music town, are having an all-star reunion of sorts at Cat’s Cradle. See page 2 for details.
—Staff Reports