SUSTAINABLE LIVING EVENT WITH LOCAL ROOTS COMES TO ASHEVILLE
Mother Earth News Fair covers gamut of homesteading, gardening and green living
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (Jan. 14, 2014) — Want to grow and prepare your own food, raise backyard chickens, or use green materials for your next remodel?
Then mark your calendar for the Mother Earth News Fair.
Mother Earth News, the largest and longest-running publication about self-sufficient lifestyles, will hold its Mother Earth News Fair April 12-13 at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center in Fletcher. The Fair runs from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.
“Mother Earth News began in Hendersonville, so, in a sense, it is like a homecoming for the brand,” says Andrew Perkins, the Fair’s director.
Visitors can attend more than 200 hands-on workshops that cover organic gardening, food preparation and preservation, renewable energy, homesteading, small-scale livestock, green building and remodeling, natural health, green transportation, and related topics. Local and national experts on sustainable and rural lifestyles will lead the sessions.
In addition, the Fair will host a poultry show, children’s activities, vendor and livestock demonstrations, hundreds of
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