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The 18th annual Piedmont Farm Tour is this weekend

This is a chance to see first-hand and show your children what life is like on almost 40 farms across the Triangle. The tour is 1-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

You can ride a covered wagon to see buffalo roaming the fields at Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm in Roxboro. You can see the fainting goats and vineyards at the Winery at Iron Gate Farm in Mebane. You can see a worm composting demonstration at Turtle Run farm in Graham.

Or choose an experience at 36 other farms in Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Orange and Person counties.

Tickets cost $25. You need one ticket per carload of people. Advance tickets can be purchased at Weaver Street Markets, Chatham Marketplace and Harmony Farms, or online at carolinafarmstewards.org/pft/. On the day of the farm tour, tickets costs $30 or $10 per individual farm.

The tour is co-sponsored by Carolina Farm Stewardship Association and Weaver Street Market.

Check out images from this weekend's Piedmont Farm Tour

Check out images from Fickle Creek Farm during Sunday's Farm Tour. Go HERE to see the photo gallery.

April is shaping up to be a tasty month

I have just gotten a flurry of e-mails today about a ton of interesting events in April. So get out your calendar and mark these dates:

  • 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 6 is a fundraising dinner for the Center for the Study of the American South featuring  Southern Foodways Alliance director John T. Edge and pitmaster Rodney Scott of Scott's Variety Store and Bar-B-Q in Hemingway, S.C. Other chefs who will be involved include Ben and Karen Barker of Magnolia Grill, Whitney Brown of Scratch, April McGreger of Farmer's Daughter, Sam Suchoff of the Pig, Bill Smith of Crook's Corner and cookbook author Sheri Castle. The event is at 3Cups and costs $125. Call 956-0556 962-5665 to reserve your seat. There are only 50 tickets.
  • 2-6 p.m. Sunday, April 10 is the annual SEEDS Pie Social and Skill Share Auction at the SEEDS garden at 706 Gilbert St. in Durham. The suggested donation for the pie social is $10 for four slices. Pies are being donated by Toast, Watts Grocery, Scratch and more. The skill share auction allows you to bid on things or opportunities to learn interesting skills from fellow community members from reupholstering a chair to brewing beer to flying a plane. All proceeds benefit the Durham Inner-City Gardeners, a youth-driven, urban farming leadership development program. 
  • The annual Piedmont Farm Tour will be 1-5 p.m. April 16 and 17. Tickets cost $25 advance, $30 on the day of the tour for a carload. For more information and to purchase tickets, go HERE.
  • 6 p.m. Thursday, April 21, Herons restaurant at the Umstead Hotel and Spa in Cary is offering a winemaker dinner featuring Tommy and Amie Baudoin of Morgan Ridge Vineyards in Gold Hill, N.C. The four-course meal will cost $85. Call 447-4200 for reservations.
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