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Spring Fling

Join Us for a Fun-Filled Community Event!

Activities and Attractions:

  • Hot Dog and Barbecue Plates: Savor delicious hot dogs and barbecue—perfect for a summer day!
  • Inflatables: Bounce, slide, and play on exciting inflatables.
  • Snow Cones: Cool down with refreshing snow cones in a variety of flavors.
  • Games: Test your skills at carnival-style games and win prizes.
  • Firetruck Display: Explore a real firetruck up close and meet local firefighters.

Bring your family, friends, and neighbors for a day of laughter, food, and community spirit. Admission is free, and everyone is welcome!

AKC Disc Dog Challenge

Join us in cheering on nearly 45 top-notch doggo athletes as they flip, fly and fetch their way to fame in events like Freestyle and Frizgility.

  • FREE Admission; No RSVP Required
  • Leashed, Well-Behaved Dogs Welcome!
  • Filmed for ESPN!

Kids Summer Movies 2024

A specially selected series of family films

9:30am Tuesdays & Thursdays June 11th through July 31st, 2024

Two movies to choose from each day

FREE Admission

THE 2024 LINEUP:

  • June 11th & 12th: Despicable Me OR Minions
  • June 18th & 19th: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mahem OR Lyle Lyle Crocodile
  • June 25th & 26th:
  • July 2nd & 3rd:
  • July 9th & 10th:
  • July 16th & 17th:
  • July 23rd & 24th:
  • July 30th & 31st:

Parade of Planets

On Monday, June 3rd, a rare event known as the “Parade of Planets” will occur, where six planets in our solar system align in a straight line.

Saturn and Mars will be visible to the naked eye, but you’ll need high-powered binoculars or a telescope to see Uranus and Neptune. Mercury and Jupiter will be tricky to spot because they are very close to the sun.

The same alignment will also happen later this summer on August 28!

A Day with Dragons

Don’t miss this special event to meet TWO bearded dragons named Remi and Ivey!!

  • Dragon Hair: 10am to 12pm
  • Cosmos Face Painting: 11am to 2pm
  • Meeting the Dragons Ivey & Remy: 10am to 4pm

Also try the new ice cream flavor “The Forest Dragon” at AppalachaCream inside the Grove Arcade.

Christmas in July Pop-Up Craft Market

Our annual Christmas in July Pop Up Craft Market will feature some of our favorite Guest Artists and a festive Independance Theme, snacks, glass blowing demos and Deals!

Spring Plant Sale & Market

Friday, May 31st 10:00am- 3pm
Saturday, June 1st 10:00am- 3pm

Calling all garden lovers! Join us on Friday and Saturday, May 31 – June 1 for our annual Spring Plant Sale and Market. The Market features unique plants grown in The North Carolina Arboretum’s Production Greenhouse and includes over 30 local growers and businesses. Shop an outstanding collection of annuals, perennials and crafts to the sounds of live music. On Saturday, June 1st, children can participate in crafts at the Kids Corner. Rain or shine.

On Friday and Saturday, join us from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. for a free adult education class From the Ground Up: Soil Health Basics. Learn more about what promotes healthy soils that grow sustainable landscapes and ultimately make for growing healthy communities! Pick up some tips from award-winning soil scientist Laura Lengnick on simple DIY soil tests that will help you determine the quality of your soil.

The Arboretum’s standard $20 parking fee applies for all non-members.

Participating vendors include:

  • Appalachian DiviniTEA
  • B.B. Barns
  • Bear Necessities Farm
  • Bellyfull Plants Nursery
  • Blazing Star Flowers
  • Blue Ridge Exotics
  • Botanical Tortoise Co
  • Bridge and Tunnel Coffee
  • Buggy Pops
  • Camilla Calnan Photography **
  • Conjure Craft Chocolate
  • Connections Gallery Gift Shop
  • Couple of Bees **
  • Finally Farm
  • Fjallraven
  • Flower Moon Nursery
  • Full Moon Tea Co
  • Half Light Honey
  • High Country Nursery
  • Homegrown Tropicals
  • Imladris Farm
  • Jen Toledo Painting & Drawing **
  • Matcha Nude
  • Milkweed Meadows Farm
  • Red Root Native Nursery *
  • Sandy Mush Herb Nursery
  • Saturnia Farm
  • Superbloom Natives
  • Sustainabillies
  • Tanager Plants
  • The Artful Plant
  • The Farm Connection
  • The Turquoise Tortuga
  • Well Seasoned Table *
  • Werhloom Honey*
  • Very Sad Lab

*Friday only
**Saturday only

Community Baby Shower (Expectant Parents)

Expecting parents! AmeriHealth Caritas North Carolina invites you and a guest to a community baby shower. 

We’ll be there with the breastfeeding resources and AmeriHealth will provide food, fun, games, prizes, and TONS of community resources.

Browse vendor tables and chat with professionals from the prenatal and postnatal health community!

Bright Start Pregnancy Program
Buncombe County Health & Human Services– WIC, CMARC, and CMHRP Programs
Read to Succeed Asheville/Buncombe
Well Roots Counseling, PLLC
Caring for Children – A program of Eckerd Connects
Babies Need Bottoms
MAHEC Ob/Gyn Specialists
MotherLove – YWCA of Asheville
Buncombe County Nurse-Family Partnership
The Sanity Nanny
Stella Stellar Network, LLC
Unete NC
Christine W. Avery Learning Center
Mission Health‘s Family Support Network
Harmonious Birth Co. (Doula)
SistasCaring4Sistas
Triple P of Western North Carolina
NCEB – North Carolina Enrollment Broker
Parent Education with Jamilah Dixon
Change Your Palate Cooking Demo
Catholic Charities
Carrie Myers Yoga/Breathwork
Steve Reisch Photography
ASAP – Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project Connections

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