Asheville Spring Herb Festival

From Asheville Spring Herb Festival Website:

Spring Herb Festival is a 3-day event being held from May 3,4,5 2019 at the WNC Farmers Market in Asheville, USA. This event showcases products like herbal medicine, holistic treatments, herbal soaps and shampoos, gourmet cooking herbs, cookbooks etc. in the Ayurvedic & Herbal, Consumer & Carnivals industries.

In part because of changes in global climate patterns, the availability of sufficient water has been irregular in recent years. In Western North Carolina, rainfall can be abundant one year and almost nonexistent another. Some years have early, heavy rainfall, others are dry until mid-summer. But many popular herbs, having developed around the Mediterranean, are drought-tolerant, and experienced gardeners know that xeriscaping with drought-tolerant herbs and using captured rainwater is always a wise budgetary move as well as ecologically important. As always, Master Gardeners from the Buncombe County Extension Service will be on hand during the festival to answer gardening questions.