This month's Grow Your Own workshop covers heart-healthy cooking! Our own Susan Jewell (GYO participant) will be teaching us about heart-healthy choices and providing some delicious snacks! If you have recipes you […]
This month's Grow Your Own workshop covers heart-healthy cooking! Our own Susan Jewell (GYO participant) will be teaching us about heart-healthy choices and providing some delicious snacks! If you have recipes you […]
Alley Cropping FundamentalsSeptember 21, 2023 • 9:00 am – 3:30 pmVT Catawba Sustainability Center • 4965 Catawba Creek Rd, Catawba, VAFREE • Rain or Shine • Lunch Included Calling all natural resource professionals who work […]
Family-friendly - Free admission - Rain or Shine Featuring a vendor market, live music, kid activities, food trucks, a petting zoo, pumpkin decorating, raffles, a plant sale and so much more!
If you'd like to grow your own medicinal plants but aren't sure where to start - start here! This virtual class will be led by ASD's Herb Hub Procurement Manager, Robin Suggs, who has a rather diverse set of skills in horticulture, community development and the production of non-timber forest products (like medicinal plants). His […]
We're hosting a FREE Seed Saving Workshop on November 4, from 1-3 pm at our ASD Greenhouse at 17444 Singingwood Lane in Bristol, VA. Learn about best practices to save seeds, including identification, harvesting, cleaning, storage, and propagation. We'll have flowers and veggies there to practice on, including sunflowers, celosia, tomatoes, peppers, cucamelons, zinnia, and […]
Learn how to design, paint, and preserve a birdhouse gourd. The gourds were grown in our garden last year, and have been properly dried and are ready to be painted. You’ll leave with a beautiful, custom birdhouse. Get tickets here.
It’s ASD’s annual #GivingTuesday campaign. Will you help us raise $50,000 this year to fight food insecurity in Central Appalachia? This year, your donations are doubled by a 1:1 match, up to $25,000! Donate here.
Learn how to freeform weave kudzu, as well as willow and honeysuckle, as you create a colorful and unique basket. We provide all materials, you provide the imagination as you craft a fun and functional indoor basket. Get tickets here.
Join us at this free event sponsored by Aetna Better Health of Virginia, and make sure you have what you need to stay healthy and well as we head into […]
You’ll use foraged materials already collected – like grapevine and evergreens – to create a beautiful door wreath. All materials are provided, including ribbon and wire, but bring your own, […]
We had some birdhouse gourds left over from our painted gourd class earlier in November, and so we thought we'd use them for a Painted Santa Gourd event. Come and […]