2025 Pre-Conference: Hood Huggers/Peace Gardens/Service Day
Thu, Sep 18
|54 Burton St, Asheville, NC 28806, USA
This field trip will tour the historically African American Burton Street neighborhood, visit an art garden founded in that neighborhood, and provide service work for their community garden.
Time & Location
Sep 18, 2025, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
54 Burton St, Asheville, NC 28806, USA
About This Event
Explore the Burton Street community, one of Asheville’s oldest African American neighborhoods founded by E.W. Pearson in 1912, including the Burton Street Community Peace Garden and Burton Street Community Center – former segregated African American elementary school.
The Peace Gardens have cultivated a creative commons focused on art, environmental stewardship, and social enterprise. The gardens are home to vegetable beds, native plants, multiple art installations, performance areas, a library/classroom, outdoor oven, greenhouse, micro-store, maker spaces, and more.
The Main Garden, built from repurposed materials, and with a focus on equity and justice, it embodies the values of sustainability and environmental stewardship, inspiring everyone who visits.
Wrap up the day with by pulling weeds, staking tomatoes, turning compost, harvesting veggies, mulching paths, and any number of other garden tasks in the Marth Jane's Garden or the Vine Garden.
Need to knows:
No video recording allowed during tour. Taking photos are welcome!
Permission required from Hood Huggers International for dogs to attend tour. Your tour will be rescheduled if dog is not registered by Hood Huggers International.
Tour will be rescheduled if there is severe weather.
Wear comfortable walking shoes there some walking during this tour.
Bring water and a packed lunch.
Bathrooms are available during tour.
Running late or lost please contact us at 828-275-5305 Ext 0 or email info@hoodhuggers.com
Tickets
PreCon2025_BurtonSt
Generic
$45.00
+$1.13 ticket service fee
Goes on sale
Jun 02, 8:00 AM