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Please RSVP to join us for our next Garden Network Potluck!Kids are welcome but please keep pets at home!
Eliada has deep agricultural roots, serving as a working farm since the early 1900’s. Today, Eliada’s Campus Farm program provides fresh organic produce, agricultural education opportunities, and community-based agritourism events to students at Eliada and the greater Asheville community. Our farm features several production spaces including a geodesic Grow Dome, Hoophouse, Corn Maze, and Learning Garden. With these garden spaces, we are equipped to grow food year-round. A majority of the produce grown on campus goes directly to our central kitchen, traveling only a hundred yards, and is prepared for student meals weekly. Excess produce is sold to local community partners who support food justice work in our community.
More info: https://www.eliada.org/campus-farm-program/
Erica Blumenfeld, Farm Director will lead the tour. Visitors will see our three-season food production hoophouse, our Geodesic Dome greenhouse/classroom, the first stages of our newly launching "Healing Farm/Outdoor classroom space" project, and some of our therapy horses and animals. We will look at food production, agricultural education, and Therapeutic Horticulture.
Parking & Directions:
The PARC building is our events building and there is a large parking lot next to it that is easily accessible and visible from Compton Drive. This is also right next to one of our greenhouses. The PARC building is handicap accessible, however the walking tour of the farm property areas will include paved roads, grassy areas, some stairs, and some gravel roads.
Closed-toed shoes are recommended
Wear clothes you are comfortable being outside and walking around in
No pets allowed; only highly trained service animals (no emotional support animals). All service animals will need to stay out of the therapy animal areas on the tour.
Children are welcome and must be supervised at all times
Do not enter animal enclosures without Eliada barn staff, and do not pet or touch the cats.
** This event is organized in collaboration with Bountiful Cities, The City of Asheville and Eliada Homes. **
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49 Compton Dr, Asheville, NC 28806-2031, United States
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