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Kid's Cafe
This year THRIVE Applachia is delighted to partner with both Tractor Food and Farm and Reconciliation House on our Jam n’ Pie Project. Tractor is donating local seasonal fruit from July to November. In the Reconciliation House commercial kitchen, youth are making pies (and soon jams as well!) and then selling them weekly on the Tractor CSA website. This program is made possible by a generous grant from Mountain Air Community Fund.
Appalachian Good Wool Project
THRIVE Appalachia is thrilled to be partnering with sheep and alpaca farmers in our local fibershed, including Wellspring Farm (Burnsville, NC), Jane Sawyer (Black Mountain, NC), and Knolveston Farm (Spruce Pine, NC). Learning Shack purchased wool from these local farmers and is having it processed at Green Mountain Spinnery into their signature boiled wool fabric. Teens will sew the fabric into upscale boiled wool jackets and hand-forge penannular brooches in our blacksmithing class as a clasp. This project is made possible by a generous Creating New Economies Fund (CNEF) grant from The Conservation Fund’s Resourceful Communities program.