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2011 Press Releases (PDFs)

Western North Carolinians Vote With Their Wallets; Region Leader in Local Food Sales

Get Local With ASAP: Stock up on Squash This November

Get Local With ASAP: Go Greens This October

Join ASAP in Celebrating First National Farm to School Month This October

Jackson County Educators Discuss Farm to School Impacts Over Local Dinner

Get Local With ASAP: September is All About Apples  

NC Mountain State Fair a Chance to Share Food and Farming Stories

High Country Chefs Embrace Local Food

Get Local With ASAP: Tomatoes Take Over This Month

Asheville Chefs, Educators are Star Pupils in Farm to School Programs

Jackson County Educators Ready to Bring Farms to Schools

Get Local With ASAP: July Menus are Brimming With Beans

Get Local With ASAP: Summer Squash Heralds Summertime

ASAP’s Family Farm Tour: 2 Days, 41 Farms, Countless Possibilities

Get Local With ASAP During the Berry Month of May

ASAP's Local Food Guide Turns 10

Get Local With ASAP This April: Say 'Cheese'

Meet Your Farmer at ASAP's CSA Fair

Get Eggcited and Get Local With ASAP This March

Community Foundation Helps ASAP Connect Chefs and Classrooms

Get Local With ASAP: February is All About Trout

MOFF Conference Offers Something for All Farmers

ASAP's Mini-Grants Fund Farm Field Trips in 2011

2010 Press Releases (PDFs)

Get Local With ASAP and Get the New Year Off to a Sweet Start

Join ASAP for MOFF 2011

Get Local With ASAP; December's Focus is Farm Raised Meat

Signs of the Season: Holiday Farmers Tailgate Markets are Here

Get Local With ASAP; November is the Time for Winter Squash

Get Local With ASAP; October Means Greens

Hive-to-Table Event to Benefit ASAP

Get Local With ASAP; September is Apple Month

ASAP and Asheville City Market Launch "$5 Free" EBT Promotion This August as Food Assistance Requests Rise

Asheville City Market Leads State EBT Sales, USDA Under Secretary to Meet Vendors Saturday and Announce New EBT Publication

Available in May: Kid's Versions of Popular Local Food Guide and Bumper Sticker

2010 Local Food Guide Published

Spring and Tailgate Farmers Market Season Arrive

Bring a Chef to Your Classroom: ASAP Provides Free Cooking Demos for WNC Schools

Local Organization Serves on State Council: ASAP to Advise on Agriculture and Food Systems

Farmers Conference to Help Farmers Find Customers

ASAP Connects Kids and Farms: Kid’s Editions of Popular Local Food Guide and Bumper Sticker Launched

*Please note: Our address has changed to 306 West Haywood Street, Asheville, NC 28801.

For an archive of older press releases (2008-2009), click here.

ASAP in the media

Pumpkin Seeds Feature on WLOS's Never Stop Learning

Logos

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Photos

We have photos of local food and sustainable agriculture—farmers, farm scenery, produce, tailgate markets, farm field trips, school gardens, and so on—available for use in relevant publications. Contact Maggie about your project, and we may be able to help you find images and captions to accompany it.

About ASAP

Mission

History (PDF)

Please browse our website to get a better idea of the scope of our work. But in brief, Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project works with farmers, consumers, retailers, and schools, among other businesses and organizations. We offer Appalachian Grown brand certification; publish the Local Food Guide, Local Food & Farm Map, and the Mixing Bowl guide for chefs and farmers; and promote and market local food. Our projects include Growing Minds, a Farm to School program; the Asheville City Market; and events ranging from training for farmers to the Family Farm Tour for the public.