Upcoming events

Please join us! Full Event Calendar below

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CRAFT WORKSHOP SERIES

We hope to see you soon!

PREVIOUS EVENTS:

Café Violette Farm to Plate Dinner
​to benefit BRWIA
Friday, May 3, 2024 

Featuring High Country Fungi mushrooms and locally harvested morel mushrooms in 4 courses, even ice cream!

​Thank you, Kyle, chef of Cafe Violette, and all the fabulous staff for hosting us!

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Local Food as Medicine Summit
​March 7, 2024

BRWIA convened an Annual LocalFAM Summit in February 2023 and March 2024. We brought together food access organizations, farmers, and community stakeholders to learn from other professionals who are passionate about healthy food access and to collaborate to form strategic partnerships and to find solutions to community food access issues. 

On average, 1 in 8 people experience food insecurity in the High Country (Source: feedingamerica.org)

If you want to know more about food insecurity in the High Country, check out the slideshow below. 

Instagram event reel here

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Double Up Food Bucks Fundraising Week
Feb 26 - Mar 4, 2024

Thank you to all our sponsors, business partners, and supporters who made this fundraising week a success! 

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Scaling Up: Food Hub Annual Business Meeting
January 28, 2024

Thanks to all of the High Country Food Hub producers and supporters who attended our 2024 Scaling Up Annual Food Hub Business Meeting! We can't thank Selena Thornton, CEO of Supernatural Flower Farm and operator of Legacy Acres blueberry farm in Pelham, NC enough for the terrific, very interactive keynote.

Thank you to  Conference & Event Services at Appalachian State University for being such great hosts, Reid's Cafe and Catering for the delicious dinner and to the many BRWIA volunteers, board and staff who made the evening possible. We love our High Country community! Check out some photos below from the event!

Thanks to our sponsors of this event!  Seven Springs Farm Supply, The Clabough Foundation, Clif Family Foundation, The Gail Handel Family Foundation and Reid's Cafe and Catering! We appreciate your support!

Notes from Event

2024 Scaling Up Slides

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2023 EVENTS:

Farm to Plate Nights at the Beacon & Reid's Cafe

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Song to Seed Program

Song to Seed features seed-saving demonstrations, stories, humor, fiddle tunes, rare heirloom seeds to share, and original songs about Appalachian foodways with musician and farmer William Ritter. 

Hosted by Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture and sponsored by The Center for Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University, please come and join us for a lively, interactive, and fun program.

Thursday, October 19
6:00 - 7:00 PM
Blowing Rock Art & History Museum

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Thank you to our Sponsor:

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2023 High Country Farm Tour
October 8, 2023​

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A Savory Shindig
September 30, 2023

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BRWIA's 20th & Judith's 80th Birthday Bash
​July 22, 2023

A night to remember celebrating BRWIA and loyal supporter, Judith Phoenix!
​Check out a few photos and article in the ​Watauga Democrat here!

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Farm to Plate Dinner at Rooted on King
June 9, 2023

Attendees enjoyed local food and drink at this Community Dinner to benefit BRWIA

Thank you to our gracious hosts at Rooted on King, a restaurant that sources locally and created an exceptional menu featuring local food from 8 different local farms that evening. 

​Check out the slideshow here!

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Mother's Day Tea
​May 21, 2023

Our Founding Mothers reuned and were recognized at our Mother's Day Tea,
​hosted by Sweetwater Kitchen. 

​Check out the slideshow here!

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Cornhole for a Cause
​May 1, 2023

To Benefit BRWIA's Double Up Food Bucks Program 

 Father/son duo won the tournament!-->

Thanks to Appalachian Mountain Brewery for hosting us!

All funds raised went to our Double Up Food Bucks program to combat food insecurity. 

Check out the slideshow here!