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Forest Feast: The Ground We share
Mon, Aug 03
|Asheville Botanical Garden
A summer of potlucks from all our kitchens and gardens, bookended by two forest feasts with music and fire. Sit spots, stories across generations, a zine built from what we find. We're mapping the ground we share — because knowing this place and each other is how a community holds when it needs to
Time & Location
Aug 03, 2026, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Asheville Botanical Garden, 151 WT Weaver Blvd, Asheville, NC 28804, USA
About the event
A Play Network gathering · Monday evenings, 5pm · The Botanical Gardens at Asheville
Most of us can't say where our water comes from. Which direction the storms arrive. What the soil under our feet is actually made of — whether it's alive or exhausted, tended or spent — or who lived on this land before us, or the name of the bird that's been singing outside the window all spring. We're not broken for this. We're just lost, in a specific and recoverable sense, and the finding turns out to be one of the most alive things available to a person right now.
So we gather. Every Monday evening at the Botanical Gardens, across one season, around actual food from actual kitchens and gardens, to learn the place we live — its water and soil and weather, its plants and neighbors and wild things — through play and direct…