Central Carolina Community College in Pittsboro is holding several activities to honor and celebrate Earth Week April 19-23.
Category: Land and Table
Greening your house
Deborah Christie will be at the Bull’s Head Bookshop in UNC Student Stores on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. to talk about her new book, Green House: The Story of a Healthy, Energy-Efficient Home, along with a slideshow presentation.
New restaurant to showcase Indian flavors and local farmers
Opening her kitchen to both strangers and longtime friends, Vimala Rajendran has hosted weekly community dinners in her home since 1993, fusing her love for authentic and local food with her value of community.
Wednesday market starts
The Carrboro Farmers’ Market is starting up its Wednesday afternoon market next week, April 14. The market runs from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Carrboro Town Commons. Chef Ricky Moore will be opening the mid-week market with the first event in the new Carrboro Market Culinary Series. The series is a local foods teaching…
Eno River Market open longer
The Eno River Farmers Market in downtown Hillsborough is now on summer hours. The market, located on East Margaret Lane, is open every Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon. New vendors on hand this year include Spoon, Sunshine Life, Box Car Farms, Serendip Farm, Lil Country Grower, Carolina Heritage Farm, Winking Moon Studios, John Mathivet…
Edible plant walk
Herbalist Kim Calhoun will lead a medicinal- and edible-plant walk on Saturday from 10 to 11:30 a.m. along the Lower Haw River State Natural Area Trail. Participants will walk from the Bynum pedestrian bridge to the trail, learning about some of the edible, drinkable and medicinal plants growing in yards, fields, forest floors and canopies…
UNC trees are topic of exhibit, lecture
Trees at UNC are the subject of a new exhibit that guides visitors across campus and back through time.
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 to the Farmers’ Market, Gifford was senior vice president at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide in San Francisco. Since moving with her family to Chapel Hill two years ago, she’s been…
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 meet-up March 16 at noon at Weaver Street Market for a briefing and then set off at 12:15 to explore the rail corridor from the end of the Libba Cotton…
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. and will provide a look at the unique features of one of the most energy-efficient buildings in the state of North Carolina. Tours begin in the Pegg Exhibit Hall (central…
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 program. Residents can recycle gable-top cartons, such as milk and juice cartons, or fabric softener refill cartons and drink boxes. Remove lids and straws and make sure drink boxes don’t…
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 for the Environment’s Environmental Seminar Series. Birnbaum will give a talk titled “Putting a Human Face on Climate Change: The Public Health Perspective,†at 7 p.m. in the Sonja Haynes…
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 candy and greeting card industry for ginning up Valentine’s Day. (Would that National Pie Day was so well observed.) Thankfully, food remains a perfectly acceptable metaphor for love. Cards,…
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 innovative clean-energy research and development. Hagan said she was impressed during a recent tour of the facility. The grant, she said, is an example of the growing interest in investments…
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 market for the 2010 season. Applicants are asked to submit a New Member Application and Product Schedule before the Jan. 9 deadline. According to the group’s website, “Applications are stronger…