Seasonal Gatherings
in the Asheville, NC area
Spring Plant Sale
Come on out for our first plant sale of the season, featuring Pangaea Plants, Phat Ninja Foodforest, and others! We will have live music and delicious food. Plenty of games will be out for the kiddos and adults!
A portion of Pangaea Plant’s proceeds will fund Equity Tickets and Transportation for the third annual Urban Garden Tour and Tasting with Bountiful Cities, scheduled for Sunday, July 14th this summer. This initiative aims to provide opportunities for individuals from historically marginalized communities in Asheville to partake in a day of celebration and culinary exploration amidst the city's vibrant food-producing gardens. By removing transportation barriers between sites, we ensure that all participants can fully engage in this enriching experience.
Sunday, May 5th 2024
10:00am - 4:00pm
Vegetables and Herbs for Sale
Our greenhouses are full of thousands of plant babies growing strong and getting ready to join your gardens. Stay tuned as we expand our ever-growing list. Here's a sampling of what we have available:
Varieties of flowers
Peppers
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Squash
Melons and more!
Perennials include:
Blueberries
Strawberries
Herbs- culinary and medicinal
Blackberries
Asparagus- purple and green
Elderberry
Figs and more!
Kel County Road, Candler, NC 28715
Fall Gathering: Get Nutty
Come one, come all! Get nutty with us! It's that time of year where we join in with the squirrel and gather our nuts for winter! It’s harvest, and we have plenty to be grateful for. The spirit of this gathering is joy, frivolity, and the changing seasons.
Ruby Ranch invites you to enjoy an afternoon of family, community, learning, playing, eating and more! It’s fall, the air is crisp, the leaves are beautiful, and it’s a wonderful time to come together in joy and celebration.
A note on pricing: we want these events to be as accessible as possible and so have a flexible policy. If you’re able to pay a suggested donation of $15-40 or more great, if you can’t then that’s great too (min ticket price, $5). You may donate ahead of time through this page or on the day of the event.
Kel County Road, Candler, NC 28715
Stay Tuned For Date
12:00pm - 6:00pm
Event Schedule
12:00p - 6:00p: Local Food, Live Music and open activities ** MUSIC BEGINS AT 2PM**
Take a walk down to the creek, through the wildflower fields, and then cuddle up by the fire and enjoy some roasted chestnuts.
1:30p and again at 3:00p: Biochar from Black Walnut Hulls Demo
Justin Holt, of the Asheville Nuttery, will be making biochar from black walnut shells and roasting North Carolina-grown Chinese chestnuts on the kiln while the biochar cooks. Drop by to talk nuts and biochar and buy some hot, roasted chestnuts. Justin will demo firing up the kiln and the process of making biochar at 1:30 and again at 3.
2:30p-3:30p: Harvest to Pantry w/ Beatrice Nathan- $10-15-20 Sliding Scale
Canning workshops are great ways to learn the safest techniques for canning and preserving our summertime bounty. Beatrice Nathan is a home gardener, permaculturalist, community builder, homemaker, and activist for a different way to live with the natural world. She believes that everyone has the right and the ability to participate in the food system.
3:30p-4:30p: Plant Propagation w/ George Brabant, aka the Phat Ninja - $26
George Brabant, of Phat Ninja Foodforest, propagates hundreds of food-producing fruit nut, and berry plants and bushes every year. In this workshop, George will talk about propagation techniques including hardwood, softwood, and semi-hardwood cuttings, and stool layering, We will discuss the best time for each propagation method, seed(nut) saving, and stratification and touch on other propagation methods such as rootstocks, grafting, and the promotion of suckering.
2:00p-400p: Music + Chili + Tea OH MY!
We will be dining on what is seasonally available from farm and forage to a feast that will tantalize all of your tastebuds! Our dear friend David Matter, from Life Like Water, will be infusing the air with music inspired by nature and community.
Our Appalachian Family Fall Gathering Includes:
Classes and demonstrations
Roasting chestnuts (and eating them too!)
Local vendors
Hayrides
Mini mini pony dance
Live Music
Food
MENU ITEMS INCLUDE:
LOCAL CHILI w/ BEEF (all organic ingredients) Grass-fed beef, Onions, Sweet Potatoes, Black Beans, Tomatoes from Ruby Roost Farm in Marshall, NC
Seminole Squash from Common Ground Farm in Celo, NC
Celery from Soil Shine Ferments in Celo, NC
Great Northern Beans + Pinto Beans + Spices
SOURDOUGH BREAD from Simple Bread in Asheville, NC
ORGANIC HERBAL TEA from Panagea Plants in Lake Lure, NC + Mountain Rose Herbs in Eugene, OR
