Chicks with Hammers This Saturday is one of my very favorite mountain festivals. I’m talking about the one-day, small mountain-town festival: Fire-on-the-Mountain in Spruce Pine NC. Yes, this takes over half of the downtown area with forges and anvils. The … Continue reading
What?? Yes. You can give a goat to someone you love this Christmas! The easy way. Don’t worry. You will not have to figure out how to gift-wrap a goat. There is an easy way. You can give your loved … Continue reading
A great day in the mountains! Downtown Spruce Pine was alive with working forges and ringing anvils at Saturday’s Fire-on-the-Mountain blacksmith festival. Of course my favorite was the Penland School and the Arthur Morgan School hands-on tents. I really get … Continue reading
This weekend December 3 and 4 is a great time to get some Christmas shopping finished! The Toe River Arts Council’s Studio Tour is a wonderful event. It combines natural beauty of driving through the heart of the Southern Appalachian … Continue reading
Hear Jamey Donaldson, the goatherd, talk about the last day for the 2011 season of the Baa-tany Goat Project. More information at The Friends of Roan Mtn .org and the Baa-tany Goat Project Blog. … Continue reading
Great times at the Second Annual Kids Naturalist’s Rally, or as we like to call it Xtreme Roan Adventures! … Continue reading
It’s that time again. Time for the Toe River Arts Council Studio Tour. Nestled in the heart of the Southern Appalachian Mountains are Yancey and Mitchell Counties. There be artists there! Two plus days of meeting artists and seeing their … Continue reading
“Fire on the Mountain” this Saturday! This is one of my favorite town festivals. Small town in the mountains of North Carolina = Spruce Pine Manly Arts = blacksmithing. (Not horseshoeing! That is a farrier. Blacksmithing uses real imagination.) Family … Continue reading
Here is a quick 4 minute video with Jamey Donaldson, Research Biologists and Manager of the Baa-tany Goat Project. You will learn one advantage the goats have over the machine in restoring the grassy balds of Roan Mountain. Learn how … Continue reading
While you are snuggled up by the fire (again), waiting out another snow storm, here is something to get you thinking of warmer days and getting on top of a mountain. Here is a short video with Jamey Donaldson of … Continue reading