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2 days ago | mountainx.com | Edwin Arnaudin

What’s new in food: Asheville Bread Festival and a Crawdad Bash Design by Scott Southwick In this week’s local food news: Asheville Bread Festival’s Bread Fair, Jettie Rae’s hosts an outdoor Louisiana-style crawdad party, Mamacita’s Taqueria raises money for an employee who lost her home to fire, local drag performers host brunch and dinner events for charity, a children’s tea event at Crown & Thistle Tea Room and Chai Pani heads to the nation’s capital. Click the story below to view the...

6 days ago | mountainx.com | Brent Brown

Function junction like23 viewsHumorOpinion SHARE Thanks for reading through to the end…We share your inclination to get the whole story. For the past 25 years, Xpress has been committed to in-depth, balanced reporting about the greater Asheville area. We want everyone to have access to our stories. That’s a big part of why we've never charged for the paper or put up a paywall.

6 days ago | mountainx.com | Brooke Randle

Tucked within the picturesque foothills of Delight, a rural area north of Shelby, lies Beam Family Farm, a farm 150 years in the making. Owner Luke Beam, a seventh-generation cattle farmer, and his wife, Kathy, once lived in the same house that Beam’s great-great-grandfather built in 1870. “My parents were full time on the farm, my mom looking after the baby calves and being in charge of the books and my dad taking care of most everything else.

1 week ago | mountainx.com | Alli Marshall |Logosophia Books

Appalachian Herb Collective offers free clinics and product swaps PLANTS FOR THE PEOPLE: Volunteers at an Appalachian Herb Collective pop-up offer free herbal medicines to support a variety of ailments, from cardiovascular issues to anxiety. Photo courtesy of Lupo Passero Although Western North Carolina has passed the six-month mark since Tropical Storm Helene, much support is still needed.

1 week ago | mountainx.com | Brionna Dallara

Spring sunlight brightens the greenhouse where farmer Evan Chender stands, watering hose in hand. The jets of water shower colorful rows of cauliflower, marigolds, turnips, lettuce, beets and bok choy — plants that have just begun to sprout. “This is where we do all of our seedling production,” says Chender, who owns the 2-acre farm The Culinary Gardener in Weaverville. “We buy seeds, and we do the entire process ourselves. It’s all about having that ultimate control over everything.