Local Events & Activities

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Fall 2010 UNCG Sustainable Film & Dialogue Series

For a description of films, click here for the flyer!

All films will be shown at 6:30 pm in the Weatherspoon Art Museum. located at the corner of Spring Garden and Tate Streets.
Free and open to the public.
Free Parking in rear of building.

There will be a post-film dialogue with film makers and local experts to address how Greensboro can move into a sustainable future. Come at 6 pm for an information exchange with local businesses and community action groups dedicated to sustainable practices.

YARDS AND NEIGHBORHOODS
Karen Neill, Urban Horticultural Agent will teach how to design, install and maintain a Carolina Yard – a yard that works with North Carolina’s environment rather than against it, and protects one of our most precious natural resources….Water. This workshop is great for realtors, homeowners, and business owners who are seeking a more environmentally friendly landscape plan.

Teaching points will be: Design Principles, Proper Site Selection, Plant Selection, Soils and Bed Preparation, Water Quality and Conservation Design Techniques, and Pest Control

To register: Contact Pam Marshall at Guilford County Cooperative Extension – 375-5876 and indicate which class date you will be attending.

Fee: $10.00 for workshop materials.
Make check payable to: Guilford Extension Advisory Council
Mail to: Karen Neill, CYN Class, 3309 Burlington Road, Greensboro, NC 27405

Please write on check which class date you are signing up for – Sept. 17th, or the 3-part workshop.
Fee includes refreshments. You will need to bring a bag lunch.

Fee includes refreshments. You will need to bring a bag lunch.

WORKSHOP LOCATIONS
Guilford County Agricultural Center
Three Tuesday evenings
September 21st, 6:30 – 8:30 pm.
September 28th, 6:30 – 8:30 pm October 5th, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
3309 Burlington Road, G’boro
375-5876

Kathleen Clay Library
September 17th, 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
1420 Price Park Drive
Greensboro, NC 27410
373-2923
(Limited number of participants)

Jim Minick, author of The Blueberry Years, a Memoir of Farm and Family, will read from his book
at Kathleen Clay Library, Greensboro, NC.
Oct. 24, 2010, 3:00 pm

The book is going to published on August 31. A brief synopsis of the book:

The Blueberry Years captures our experience creating, operating, and eventually selling one of the mid-Atlantic's first certified-organic, pick-your-own blueberry farms. For a decade, Sarah, my wife, and I planted, pruned, and picked while also opening the field to hundreds of people who came to harvest berries. These pickers shared blueberry-flavored moonshine and sober religion, warm hugs and cool hats, and always bushels of stories. To give a larger context to our story, I include brief chapters on national issues such as organic foods and new farmers. I also include short interludes on all things blueberry, like the fruit's many health benefits, the woman who domesticated this plant, or the blueberry in literature. Ultimately, this book tells the story of a young couple pursuing their blueberry dream.

Green Drinks - Winston-Salem Chapter
(Website...)
5:30 p.m. the last Wednesday of every month at
Krankies Coffee at 211 E. Third St..

Green Drinks - Greensboro Chapter
5:30pm. the third Wednesday of every month at
at the Green Bean Coffeehouse at 341 S. Elm St