Scott Conary is enthusiastic about coffee, and it’s not just because he has trouble waking up in the morning. Conary’s selection as head judge at the 11th annual World Barista Championship attests to this.
Category: Land and Table
DÃa del Tomate
The Carrboro Farmers’ Market will hold its 13th annual Tomato Day on July 17, with a special emphasis this year on the much-honored vegetable’s humble beginnings in the Americas.
Master gardener classes
Master gardener training will be held at the Orange County Extension Center, 306 Revere Road, Hillsborough. The 15-week program will be held on Wednesdays from Sept. 14 through January 2011, with sessions running from 9 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
Farmer wanted
The Orange County Board of Commissioners is looking for an Orange County farmer to serve on the Piedmont Food and Agriculture Processing Center steering committee.
Owl Prowl on the Haw
The Haw River Assembly will hold a paddling fundraiser July 17, exploring Big Alamance Creek and the birds along its shoreline, including the many barred owls whose hoots filled the night.
Not mulch
The Orange County Solid Waste Management Department announced this week that it expects to be sold out of yard-waste mulch through the end of August.
Forgotten grasslands
Philip Juras, artist and landscape architect, gives us a vision of what the open, old-growth grassy woodlands of the southeastern Piedmont were like when European explorers first arrived in the annual Sims Lecture at the N.C. Botanical Garden Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. The lecture opens Juras’ exhibit, “A Vision of Grasslands in the…
Chapel Hill High stages The Wizard of Oz
Chapel Hill High School’s drama department will present The Wizard of Oz Thursday-Saturday, April 29-May 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Hanes Auditorium. Tickets are $5 for students (high school and younger), $8 for adults and free for CHCCS staff (one free ticket per staff member with ID). Tickets can be reserved by email at hanesboxoffice@gmail.com….
HOPE Garden dedication
A ribbon-cutting event for HOPE Gardens, a new community garden at 2200 Homestead Road in Chapel Hill, is set for Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. A joint project of the Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department and the Homeless Outreach Poverty Eradication committee, the garden and education center also serves as a transitional-employment…
Seedling event
The Carrboro Farmers’ Market is holding its annual tomato-seedling giveaway for kids, beginning Saturday at 8:30 a.m. For the last six weeks, the market’s farmers have grown the plants especially for young gardeners. To help the seedlings get a good start, Fifth Season Gardening Company is providing the organic potting soil and advice. Adding to…
Earth Day on campus
UNC’s Earth Week celebration continues with several events scheduled for Earth Day, which this year falls on Thursday, including an Earth Day Fair on Polk Place starting at 10 a.m., a walking tour of campus trees with Michael Dirr at 3:30 p.m. and a showing and discussion of the documentary Food Fight from 7 to…
Market to take cards, foods stamps
Starting May 1, the Carrboro Farmers’ Market will start taking credit and debit cards and charges to food stamp accounts. The market is also setting up a new program for food stamp recipients called Market Match, which will allow participants to double their buying power at the market. Read about the innovative new programs in…
Pollinator tour
Take a tour of the Pollinator Garden at Chatham Marketplace on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. with Debbie Roos from the Chatham Center of the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service.
Trees on campus
Don’t forget the walking tour of campus with author Michael Dirr. The tour is being conducted in conjunction with the “Noble Trees, Traveled Paths: The Carolina Landscape Since 1793†exhibit on display at Wilson Library.
Master gardeners
The Orange County Master Gardeners will be at the Carrboro Farmers’ Market on April 17 ready to help you solve your gardening and plant conundrums.