Poplar Grove Plantation
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21st
Annual Herb & Garden Fair & NEW This Year 5k
Fun/Run/Walk A
weekend event where everything is coming up Spring! Join us as we
host the area's largest and longest running garden event! The plantation grounds…
will be full of vendors selling annuals, perennials, shrubs, native
plants, vegetable starts, herbs, container gardens and other types of
plant material. Also shop
herbal products, arts & crafts, garden and yard art plus local foods!
Special activities
taking place during the event: ·
Workarts,
chainsaw artist Jeff Lee demonstrating and selling his chainsaw art
sculptures. ·
Lowe’s Home
Improvement Booth:
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Build & Grow
Kids’ Clinic – Saturday 10 - 2 & Sunday 12 – 3, children
accompanied by a parent may build their own wood toy!
(while
supplies last). o
Nursery Plant
Specialist – helping you with your garden & lawn needs and showing
what your neighborhood Lowe’s has to offer. o
MyLowe’s Program
– learn how Lowe’s can help you customize and simplify home
improvements! ·
4-H,
seed germination activity: Learn
about our local 4-H groups from Pender ·
Raffle prizes,
register with your email address to win one of the many items donated by
our generous vendors and buy tickets to win a grill donated by Lowe’s
Home Improvement, Porter’s Neck · The Pender County Master Gardeners staff the Ask a Master Gardener booth, they will answer your gardening questions, help identify plants or discuss problems you may be having in your garden.
The Pender County Chapter of the NC State Beekeepers Association offers Bee
Education at their booth with displays of equipment, tools, a teaching
hive and photos.
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At the Cultural Arts Center ‘Barn’ you can
take advantage of classes and activities offered by our local experts
throughout the two days. You
can go on Bird & Nature Hike, learn about landscaping, raising
backyard chickens, making herbal salves, growing tomatoes, attracting
backyard birds, gardening in containers, home canning and more.
Please see below for the complete line up
classes available for you to attend. All
classes will meet in the downstairs of the Cultural Arts Center
‘Barn’. Please plan on
arriving a few minutes early. Attendance
is included in the admission fee! Saturday
March 23 ANNUAL
BIRD & NATURE HIKE Join Andy
for a Bird and Nature Hike through Abbey Nature Preserve, a NC Birding
Trail of the Coastal Plain Region. Adjacent
to Poplar Grove and part of the original plantation, the 62 acre site that
is Abbey Nature Preserve was placed into the NC Coastal Land Trust in
2007, with trails and a bridge over the old mill pond it is a beautiful
place to spend your morning. Andy
has an unyielding curiosity about the outdoors, as radio commentator,
naturalist and environmental educator; he has dedicated his life to
sharing with others his enthusiasm for nature.
You will enjoy learning from Andy on this casual hike!
The hike leaves from the Cultural Arts Center ‘barn’ area.
Appropriate dress and shoes are needed, bring your binoculars is
desired. (In the
event of inclement weather Andy will hold an open discussion in the
Cultural Arts Center ‘Barn’.) Approximately
1 – 1 ½ hour hike Well-known
local naturalist, Andy Wood, served nearly twelve years as education
director for Audubon NC and thirteen years as the curator for the NC
Aquarium at Fort Fisher. He is
the author of Backyard Carolina,
a collection of his weekly commentaries on nature for WHQR Public Radio.
Coastal Plain Conservation
Group is an organization he founded to support his work with rare and
endangered species and their habitats in and around southeastern NC. HOME
CANNING DEMONSTRATION Approximately
45 minute class TOMATO
Q & A: ASK EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT TOMATOES! Do you
want to know why your tomato plants wilt and die?
What causes the bottoms to rot?
Why do fruits fail to set or have good flavor?
Answers to these and other common tomato questions will be answered
in this class taught by Charlotte. She
will also have recommendations on how to avoid or fix common tomato
problems. Approximately
1 ½ hour class
Approximately
45 minute class
Approximately
45 minute class
Learn
about the herb plants that bees love!
Anybody can help keep our bee population strong and healthy by
planting herbs that are good for bees and other pollinators.
Meg, known for her extensive knowledge of herbs, will teach you
which plants to have in your garden and yard to attract bees.
You can create a healthy, beautiful herb garden and foster a
healthy bee population at the same time!
Informational handouts included. Approximately
45 minute class
Approximately
1 ½ hour class BACKYARD
CHICKENS Approximately
45 minute class MAKING HERBAL SALVES Approximately
1 ½ hour class
Approximately 45 minute class Historic
Poplar Grove Plantation is a non-profit organization dedicated to
education, preservation and service to the community.
All funds raised will be used to help ensure that future
generations may enjoy Poplar Grove’s beauty, educational programs,
special events and community activities.
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Admission
$5.00 Your fee includes admission to any classes/activities (space permitting) and is good for both days. Participants may enter to win free drawings throughout the event (do not have to be present to win). Admission
fees benefit Poplar Grove, a non-profit foundation.
We appreciate your support which enables Poplar Grove to continue
this and other special events, as well as our daily programs and community
activities for future generations.
Food
and beverage concessions will be available on site: Traditional Greek Food: gyros w/lettuce, tomatoes & onions with tztiki sauce and souvalaki grilled pork on a skewer; Greek pastries. Other foods: Hot
dogs, hamburgers, BBQ, fries, funnel cakes and beverages.
The animal lovers at Poplar Grove request that pets be left at home during the Herb and Garden Fair. This is to protect the pets as well as vendors' merchandise. Thank you.
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