Avery County Farm City Banquet Saturday
Jamie Shell / (jamie.shell@averyjournal.com)
The annual Avery County Farm City Banquet will be held at 6 p.m. this Saturday, Feb. 4, with a snow date of Saturday, Feb. 18. The banquet will be hosted at Crossnore Baptist Church, with dinner catered by Dan’l Boone Inn in Boone.
Farm City Banquet is an annual celebration of a growing partnership between farm and non-farm, rural and urban people. Farm-City Week promotes the exchange of ideas and information that results in greater understanding between rural and urban communities.
It is this understanding, as well as the growing partnership, that will continue to protect the area’s land, water, air and food. Urban/rural cooperation is a partnership that has carried local farmers and conservationists through the centuries and will continue to serve the region well into the current one, according to Avery Cooperative Extension.
Avery County Farm City Banquet is a local observance of Farm-City Week, and exists due to the sponsorship of North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, in cooperation with Avery Soil and Water Conservation District, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Avery County Farm Service Agency, Avery County High School FFA and Avery County Farm Bureau.
The program will include such awards as Farm Family of the Year, Young Farmer of the Year, Woman in Agriculture, Teacher of the Year, Youth in Agriculture and Volunteer of the Year, among others. The banquet will also include an array of door prizes up for grabs.
“This is the largest of the agricultural banquets each year, and we want to recognize good farmers, regardless of time spent in the industry,” said Doug Hundley, integrated pest management technician with Avery County Cooperative Extension. “We have local live music and entertainment, along with a great meal. Roy Krege will serve as master of ceremonies and it will be an entertaining program.”
For additional information concerning this year’s banquet, or to purchase tickets, call Avery County Cooperative Extension Center at (828) 733-8270.
Farm City Banquet is an annual celebration of a growing partnership between farm and non-farm, rural and urban people. Farm-City Week promotes the exchange of ideas and information that results in greater understanding between rural and urban communities.
It is this understanding, as well as the growing partnership, that will continue to protect the area’s land, water, air and food. Urban/rural cooperation is a partnership that has carried local farmers and conservationists through the centuries and will continue to serve the region well into the current one, according to Avery Cooperative Extension.
Avery County Farm City Banquet is a local observance of Farm-City Week, and exists due to the sponsorship of North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, in cooperation with Avery Soil and Water Conservation District, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Avery County Farm Service Agency, Avery County High School FFA and Avery County Farm Bureau.
The program will include such awards as Farm Family of the Year, Young Farmer of the Year, Woman in Agriculture, Teacher of the Year, Youth in Agriculture and Volunteer of the Year, among others. The banquet will also include an array of door prizes up for grabs.
“This is the largest of the agricultural banquets each year, and we want to recognize good farmers, regardless of time spent in the industry,” said Doug Hundley, integrated pest management technician with Avery County Cooperative Extension. “We have local live music and entertainment, along with a great meal. Roy Krege will serve as master of ceremonies and it will be an entertaining program.”
For additional information concerning this year’s banquet, or to purchase tickets, call Avery County Cooperative Extension Center at (828) 733-8270.