The Carrboro Farmers’ Market will hold a meeting to plan for the future Friends of the Carrboro Farmers’ Market on May 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Carrboro Town Hall. The Friends of the Carrboro Farmers’ Market is being developed as a tax-exempt organization to undertake charitable and educational activities related to agricultural issues. Market officials…
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South Estes Farmers’ Market anniversary
The South Estes Farmers’ Market will celebrate its first anniversary on May 2 from 8 a.m. to noon. The event will feature more than 25 local vendors, live music by The Starlite Band, prize drawings, cooking demonstrations and face painting. The South Estes Farmers’ Market is held outside of A Southern Season at the University…
Food-processing center receives grants
The planned Piedmont Food and Agricultural Processing Center in Hillsborough has been awarded more than $1 million in grants during the past six months. The center will open in 2010 and will provide a wide range of food-processing equipment and business development support and education. Farmers and local food entrepreneurs in the Piedmont will have…
Farm Tour Tips
By Emily Buehler This weekend is the 14th annual Piedmont Farm Tour, a chance to visit 40 of our area’s small farms. With over 9,000 visits to farms by over 300 families last year, our tour is the largest in the country! And it boasts everything from grass-fed beef and free-range chicken operations to biodynamic…
Carrboro Creative Coworking to help job seekers
Carrboro Creative Coworking will offer free office space during the month of May to anyone searching for work. The office will provide free coffee, Wi-Fi and a desk in a collaborative shared space on a first-come, first-served basis throughout May. Carrboro Creative Coworking is a professional shared workspace with a community atmosphere, located at 205…
Farm tour
The Carolina Farm Stewardship Association will host its annual Piedmont Farm Tour on April 25 and 26. The event features more than 40 farms in Orange, Chatham, Durham and Alamance Counties, including eight new farms this year, and is the largest sustainable farm tour in the country. Buttons for the tour are $25. For a…
Uncommon Garden Tour
Local artist Rick Hermanson began designing the uncommon garden seven years ago. Today, this formerly ordinary backyard is an intricate web of sculptural landscapes. Every square foot has been transformed into an exotic natural wonderland, with artful snakes, dragons, water features and more. The garden is open to the public on May 2 as a…
FAN seminar to offer insurance tips
The Family Advocacy Network (FAN), a program of the Mental Health Association in Orange County, will sponsor a free seminar, “How to Get What You Need From Your Insurance Company,†on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at Orange United Methodist Church. Amy Martin-Jewett, a nurse who is also an insurance professional, will present the…
Habitat seeks women volunteers
Chatham Habitat for Humanity seeks women volunteers to work on a Habitat house construction site during National Women Build Week, May 5-8. Construction or home improvement experience is not necessary. Volunteers will engage in various house-framing activities to start three homes in the new Chatham Oak subdivision in Pittsboro. To volunteer for the project, email…
Low-cost rabies vaccinations
The Orange County Animal Services Department will offer two low-cost rabies vaccination clinics in April and May. Clinics are April 29, 6 to 7 p.m., at the Governments Services Center Annex in Hillsborough, and May 1, 1 to 5 p.m., at the OC Animal Shelter on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The vaccination fee is…
Earth Action Day set for Saturday
The Town of Chapel Hill will present the 2009 Earth Action Day Celebration from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday on the grounds of UNC’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center on Franklin Street. The event will feature an Earth Day Ballet by the Studio A Dancers, musical performances by Equinox and the Kickin’ Grass Band…
Haw River Festival
The 20th annual Haw River Festival will be held May 9 from 1 to 6 p.m. at the old Bynum Bridge between Chapel Hill and Pittsboro. The festival will feature live music, kid’s activities, a silent auction of artist Clyde Jones’ critters and paintings, a native plant sale and more. For more information, visit hawriver.org…
Celebration of Earth and Sky
The Celebration of Earth and Sky will be held Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Carrboro Century Center. To volunteer or for more information, contact Chapel Hill High School earth and environmental science teacher Ron Greenburg at rgreenburg@chccs.k12.nc.us or 929-2106, ext. 1119.
From Hunger Lunch to Nourish International
By Jasmina Nogo Staff Writer What began as a weekly $3 lunch of beans and rice on UNC’s campus in 2003 became a national student-run nonprofit organization that seeks to eradicate world poverty. Sindura Citineni, a 2004 UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School graduate, started the student group Hunger Lunch and used profits from the meals to…
Library accepts food for fines
Orange County Public Libraries will accept food for fines during National Library Week, April 13 to 19. One non-perishable food item will be accepted as payment for each individual library fine on an account at any Orange County Library circulation desk. Food items will not be accepted as payment for the replacement costs of materials….