It's Important to Know Your Food
Head over to the Overcash lawn any time during the festival to check out activities including:
- Composting and garden demos
- Getting started with urban chickens
- Bee keeping demos
- Information on local farmers markets and CSAs
Come learn about what's happening in the local food movement, and how you can take control of the food your family eats.
Charlotte Clean and Green Plant Sale
Help Hope Haven, a non‐profit drug and alcohol abuse rehabilitation center in Charlotte, raise money to support their growing efforts by purchasing a tomato, cucumber, cantaloupe, eggplant, watermelon, zucchini, yellow squash or basil plant. All of our plants have been started from seed in the greenhouse, and will be ready April 17th for pick up at Charlotte Clean and Green, located at CPCC's Central Campus at the corner of Elizabeth Ave. and Kings Drive. If you are unable to pick up your plants on Saturday, April 17th, between 10am and 3pm at CPCC, alternate arrangements can be made.
All prices reflect the cost for one pot.
Price List:
Tomatoes (all heirloom varieties)
- Cherokee purple – $4
- German Johnsons – $4
- Long Keepers – $4
- Black Krim (extremely limited supply) – $5
- Abraham Lincolns (extremely limited supply) – $5
Other available plants
- Eggplant – $5
- Cantaloupe – $5
- Watermelon – $5
- Basil – $5
- Yellow Squash – $4
- Cucumber – $4
- Zucchini – $4