Stories of heavy rainfalls, lingering drought, warmer winters, extreme temperature fluctuations and new pest and disease challenges abound these days at home and across the U.S. How are all these events linked and what does this mean for your garden, your family, your community? How do we prepare for these and other changes already happening and expected to grow more intense in coming years?

On Tuesday, November 15 at 7 pm until 8:30 pm, at the Town of Weaverville Community Room, 30 S. Main Street, The Garden Club of Weaverville hosted a discussion open to the public for free with local author Laura Lengnick, climate resilient gardening and community resilience.

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Laura Lengnik

Weaverville, NC— Changing weather patterns affect us all. More heavy rainfall, warmer winters and springs, hotter summer nights, more dry periods and drought translate into changes in the timing of flowering, the success of pollination and fruiting, the challenges of managing fruit and vegetable crops in your garden. Laura Lengnick, a local vegetable and fruit gardener, discusses all of these changes and more in her new book, Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate (New Society Publishers 2015), and explains how they are all associated with our changing climate. http://cultivatingresilience.com/

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October 11, 2016 – Tuesday 9:30 – Sustainable Herb Gardening: Why and How

09/16/2016 The Garden Club of Weaverville

Join us for a lively (click here ->) p resentation by gardening educator and permaculture expert Laura Ruby, co-owner of The Ruby Ro ost, a learning center and retreat locatedjust outside of Marshall, NC. She also started and and manages YummyYards, an edible landscaping company. This year she joined the Roots Foundation, working with teachers and students in gardens of all varieties through Asheville City Schools.

She will discuss and illustrate the following topics and will answer your questions following her presentation:

Getting started with herbs- selecting the right plant for the right place
Learning the different types of herbs– culinary, medicinal, insect attracters, plant companions
Preparing soil for herbs
Harvesting your herbs: when and how
Prepping herbs for storage

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Meeting September 13 – 9:30 – What Every Gardener Should Know About BioChar

07/29/2016 The Garden Club of Weaverville

Join us for an inspiring presentation on biochar by Jon Nilsson, soil scientist of 25 years and founder of Char-Grow, where the biochar is produced in the Mills River area. Jon has also worked over 20 years as a compost consultant. Jon will help us understand what biochar is, how to use biochar for long term enhancement of soil health and garden productivity while reducing watering and sequestering carbon. He will bring samples to pass around and a choice of info-sheets on aspects of this topic.

There will be a Q&A at the end of his talk and a convenient opportunity to purchase biochar. For more information check out these websites: www.char-grow.com, www.carbonchar.com and Living Web Farms.

Location: Weaverville Town Office/Hall –Community Room
30 South Main Street
Weaverville, NC 28787

Time: Please come a few minutes before the presentation starts which is at 9:30 a.m. to sign in, get a name tag, pick up handouts and cards to write down any questions for the Q&A, and to welcome visitors and fellow members.

Cost: Free to the public

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