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  • IFM Apple Festival

    Independence Town Park 108 E Main St 24348, Independence, VA, United States

    The Apple Festival is a community-wide event that celebrates apple season. The highlight is a community cider pressing—bring your apples to press with our presses!  We’ll have three-one just for the kids! The Market also offers fresh pressed cider for donation as a fundraiser. The apple dessert contest is always hotly contested and it open[...]

  • Annual Meeting, Dinner & Silent Auction

    Grayson LandCare Office 104 Courthouse Street, Independence, VA, United States

    Join Grayson LandCare for our Annual Meeting Potluck & Service Auction at Ward Manor, 6:00 pm, Monday, October 15th, 2018. Come learn more about LandCare and support our initiatives in the community. Please bring a friend and a dish to share!  RSVP online http://evite.me/7vgTT2QXm3 A Sampling of Auction Items Include: Weekend stay at Dream Rock Silo or Creekside[...]

  • The Community Food Forest Handbook

    Grayson LandCare Office 104 Courthouse Street, Independence, VA, United States

    Catherine Bukowski is a researcher, author, educator, and communicator. She is currently wrapping up her Ph.D. at the College of Natural Resources and the Environment at Virginia Tech, where she co-taught an agroforestry and whole-farm-planning course that incorporated permaculture principles. She studied with Dave Jacke on food forest design, has a certificate in Collaborative Community[...]

  • IFM Winter Market & Christmas Tree Fundraiser

    Independence Town Park 108 E Main St 24348, Independence, VA, United States

    The Farmers Market returns to Town Park for on Green Friday from 11 am to 3 pm.  Enjoy free kids activities, listen to Christmas carols, shop for delicious local products  and beautiful crafts and pickup your pre-ordered Christmas trees and wreaths.

  • IFM Winter Market and Chili Cook-off

    Independence Town Park 108 E Main St 24348, Independence, VA, United States

    The Farmers Market is back in Town Park  from 11 am to 3 pm. Enter or judge the Chili Cook-off. A $5 ticket lets you taste all the chili and vote for your favorite, we had a dozen entries last year, so it’s a bargain. FREE to enter, bring your chili to the Market by 10:30.[...]

  • LandCare Christmas Party

    Grayson LandCare Office 104 Courthouse Street, Independence, VA, United States

    Join LandCare as we celebrate the holidays at 7:00 pm Monday, December 17th at the LandCare office in Independence. Bring an appetizer or drink to share. This year, we will[...]

  • IFM Grow More Vegetables Workshop

    Grayson LandCare Office 104 Courthouse Street, Independence, VA, United States

    Saturday, January 26– Grow More Vegetables for farm and garden workshop. 9 am to noon, 108 Courthouse St. $10 includes snacks.  Learn how to grow more in less space. Planting dates,[...]

  • Food Forest Work Day

    Church of the Good Shepherd 9441 Grayson Pkwy, Galax, VA, United States

    Join the Grayson Permaculture Group as we build a Food Forest at Church of the Good Shepherd in Galax.  Tools & gloves provided, bring water and a snack.  Contact Cynthia@graysonlandcare.org for more information or check out our Facebook Page.

  • Opioid Analgesics: Pain and Abuse

    Grayson LandCare Office 104 Courthouse Street, Independence, VA, United States

    Dr. Linda Dykstra, Kenan Professor Emeritus in Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina (UNC) @ Chapel Hill will give a presentation titled: Opioid Analgesics: Pain and Abuse. Linda and her husband, Bill Hylander, became members of Grayson Landcare upon retiring to Grayson County where they own a farm in the Spring Valley community. Linda[...]