Events – North Asheville Tailgate Market

Events

Events

Due to the COVID-19 all North Asheville Tailgate Market events have been postponed. Please stay tuned, as we look forward to announcing future events that celebrate our local foods community!

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Did anyone else SQUASH their hunger for some summe

Did anyone else SQUASH their hunger for some summer foods this past weekend? 🥔

Happy ✨ Solstice ✨ and longest day of the year!! ☀️ That means summer crops are ON!

Community call to action! Repost from @plantswith

Community call to action!

Repost from @plantswitht
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Please share share share! 🐝 Link in the bio!

• @land.of.sky ✨𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝑨𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏! ✨(Thats you!!:)

Let’s make Tamarya’s farming dreams come true through community support! —Link is in my bio!-

Tamarya Sims @plantswitht (she/they) is a Black farmer, herbalist, beekeeper, educator, environmentalist/ecologist and food justice advocate in Asheville, Western North Carolina.
Tamarya started her first business, @soulfullsimonefarm , but dreams of owning her own large piece of farmland <<debt free>> where folks can come to heal and learn without judgment. Preferably with a stream and forest! She imagines trails, a food forest, medicine, love, life, family, community, and ancestral healing.

Access to land directly determines who has the opportunity to succeed in agriculture. White farmers now account for 98 percent of the owned acres. The inherited wealth gap between white and Black, Indigenous, and other POC individuals is particularly challenging in agriculture, which is a capital-intensive career dependent on access to land.

Racial Justice, Food justice, and Land justice are intertwined.

HOW TO HELP:

- DONATE! Be as generous as you can, if you can. Consider donating regularly if one larger amount isn’t as doable- this will take a while!

-SHARE! Sharing on any and all platforms is always welcome! This isa community effort!

-NETWORK- If you are in real estate, have access to farmable landfor sale, can help with the legal side of securing land, or have other expertise to offer, please contact Tamarya!

GROW IT! - Have anything you can raffle off in exchange for getting people to donate? Brainstorm and go for it! Make sure to tag @plantswitht and @land.of.Sky on Instagram- we’ll help amplify your efforts!

SHOP! 100% of the profits from this shop will be donated to this fundraiser- https://landofskytattoos.bigcartel.com/products
(Link in bio!)

We are so grateful to be in community with you all!

#blackownedbusiness #blackfarmers #blackbeekeepers #supportblackownedbusinesses #gofundme #landback #supportblackowned #farmlife #asheville #makingitinasheville #wnc #ashevillenc

Today is market day and Juneteenth! As Juneteenth

Today is market day and Juneteenth! As Juneteenth officially becomes a national holiday, we invite our market community to learn more about Juneteenth, racial justice, and long term actions and goals that extend beyond a symbolic holiday and support the thriving of Black people in our community and nation.

While the Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1st, 1863, it took over two and a half years for slaves in Texas to know they were free marking June 19th, 1865 as true freedom day. When slaves were freed, they were promised 40 acres and a mule, but we know that never occurred and Black Americans have continued to endure challenges especially regards land access. Research for more!

As @blackfoodjustice puts it: "Our connection to, relationship with and access to land is an essential source of our healing, power and ultimately our liberation. As land based indigenous people, Black communities have a deep connection to the earth with land as a source of spiritual, economic, cultural and communal grounding."

As a market community of farmers, food producers, land tenders, eaters, and market goers, of predominantly white race, we call ourselves and our community in to recognizing these truths and doing something about it. Here are some ideas! Please share if you have any.

-Listen and learn from Black people, especially women and trans women.
-Make every Friday Black Friday by buying from Black-owned businesses.
-Incorporate reparations into your monthly budget.
-Incorporate reparations as a part of your business model.
-Pay Black people directly.
-Support land access for Black farmers. (Check out @soulfirefarm's BIPOC Farmer Reparations Map!)
-Learn about Fannie Lou Hamer and Freedom Farms.
-Have hard conversations with white friends and family members.
-Pay attention to legislature (or lack there of) supporting Black Farmers.
-Follow and support Black-led organizations in food and land work!
-Donate to local Black Farmers, @plantswitht, @soulfullsimonefarm’s fundraiser for land access in WNC! (More information in next post and link in bio).

Remember that racial justice, economic justice, food justice, and land justice are deeply intertwined.

Can’t wait to see you tomorrow @northashevilleta

Can’t wait to see you tomorrow @northashevilletailgatemarket !!!🙌🏻❤️

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#knowyourfarmer #fresh #freshandtasty #avltoday
#localproduce #buylocal #supportlocal #asapconnections #nofarmsnofood #localmarket

We ❤️our Asheville community BERRY much!! 😉 W

We ❤️our Asheville community BERRY much!! 😉 Wishing you a good week!🍒🍓

#828isgreat #farmersmarket #northashevilletailgatemarket #shoplocal #localfood #avleats #local #supportyourlocalfarmer
#knowyourfarmer #fresh #freshandtasty #localproduce #buylocal #supportlocal #asapconnections #avltoday #localmarket

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