Farm Expo

The Ashe and Alleghany Counties Cooperative Extensions, the Ashe and Alleghany Counties Christmas Tree and Cattlemen’s Associations and the NC Dept. of Agriculture are hosting an all inclusive Farm Expo on Saturday, August 29 from 12:30 p.m. until dark at the Upper Mountain Research Station in Laurel Springs, NC. The 2009 Farm Expo will highlight research projects at the Upper Mountain Research Station, farm diversification opportunities, and have vendors showing off new farm equipment, conservation opportunities, farm related funding, area banks and many other for profit and non-profit agricultural services. Farmers interested in attending this Farm Expo should contact the Mitchell County Extension Center at 688-4811 by August 14.