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Farmers’ market gets assistant manager

Margaret Gifford has been named part-time assistant manager of the Carrboro Farmers’ Market, where she’ll focus on special events and public relations. Prior to coming … Full Story »
Mar 11, 2010 • Posted in: Land and Table0 Comments

Campus to Campus biking

Campus to Campus Bike Connection, a new group formed to help establish a bike connection between the main campus and Carolina North, will sponsor a … Full Story »
Mar 11, 2010 • Posted in: Land and Table0 Comments

Botanical Garden tours

The N.C. Botanical Garden is starting a season of tours of the garden’s new Visitor Education Center. Tours will be each Saturday at 1:30 p.m. … Full Story »
Mar 11, 2010 • Posted in: Land and Table0 Comments

Chatham adds recycling options

Chatham County residents can now bring two new types of paper containers to the 12 collection centers for recycling as part of the mixed-paper recycling … Full Story »
Mar 11, 2010 • Posted in: Land and Table0 Comments

NIEHS director on campus

Linda S. Birnbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, will visit the university on March 23 as part of the UNC Institute … Full Story »
Mar 11, 2010 • Posted in: Land and Table0 Comments

The Eater: Special Report

Amuse yourselves Regardless of why it pushes our buttons, as Carrboro’s resident expert on such matters, Margot Lester, notes, you have to hand it to the … Full Story »
Feb 11, 2010 • Posted in: Land and Table0 Comments

Biofuels get stimulus grant

U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan’s office announced this week that Piedmont Biofuels Industrial in Pittsboro will receive a $139,249 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant for … Full Story »
Dec 10, 2009 • Posted in: Land and Table0 Comments

Markets recruiting

Farmers of Orange, which operates the South Estes Farmers’ Market at University Mall near A Southern Season, is looking for new vendors to join the … Full Story »
Dec 10, 2009 • Posted in: Land and Table0 Comments

Berry good

N.C. State’s N.C. MarketReady program has launched a new web resource for blackberry and raspberry growers in North Carolina called The Blackberry & Raspberry Growers … Full Story »
Dec 10, 2009 • Posted in: Land and Table0 Comments

Wish granted

Terry McClernon, aka The Food Fairy, was the recipient of a little magic herself courtesy of the Chatham County Economic Development Corporation. The county announced … Full Story »
Dec 3, 2009 • Posted in: Land and Table0 Comments

Local food lover’s guide

A Southern Season is hosting a gala book launch and signing for Morton Neal’s new book Chapel Hill Food Lover’s Guide with Carrboro and Hillsborough … Full Story »
Dec 3, 2009 • Posted in: Land and Table0 Comments

Creasy’s the word

Recently, we were looking over the list of what’s new at the Carrboro Farmers’ Market and came across “creasy greens.” Once the question “just what … Full Story »
Dec 3, 2009 • Posted in: Land and Table0 Comments

Q(uick) exit

After a scant eight months at 302 E. Main St. in Carrboro, the Q Shack has closed down, citing a lack of business. The barbecue … Full Story »
Dec 3, 2009 • Posted in: Land and Table1 Comment

Raise a castle

Speaking of Tyler’s, please note that even if you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at … Full Story »
Dec 3, 2009 • Posted in: Land and Table0 Comments

Grilled cheese alert

We have it on good authority that Jessee’s makes a pretty nice grilled cheese. “Like the kind you’d make at home,” was the description. Full Story »
Dec 3, 2009 • Posted in: Land and Table0 Comments