PlantFest, our plant sale and garden festival, will take place on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at a new location: Blackwood Farm Park. Please use the south entrance of the park, near 1436 New Hope Church Road, Chapel Hill (watch for PlantFest signs).

Fun for all: A big plant sale with many native plants, and a garden festival featuring gardening exhibits and demonstrations, kids’ activities, an art sale, free seeds, tool sharpening, food trucks, music and more!

Our next “Dig Deeper” talk, on Oct. 19, is about tick-borne illnesses and how gardeners can prevent tick bites. The speakers are Onyinye I. Iweala, MD, PhD, a UNC Health physician in the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, and Jennifer Platt, DrPH, of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

The free talk will take place from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 19 at the Orange County Library, 137 West Margaret Lane, Hillsborough. Register here.

View a PDF of the presentation at our last Dig Deeper talk, about Native Plants.

Master Gardener volunteers host tables at the Carrboro and Eno River farmers’ markets. Visit us! We love to answer questions and talk about gardening.

Carrboro Farmers’ Market: We’ll be at the market on Saturdays, 8 a.m. to noon, through Oct. 25. On Nov. 1 and 8, we’ll be there from 9 a.m. to noon.

Eno River Farmers’ Market:Third Saturday of month, 8 a.m. to noon, through October. Upcoming date: Oct. 18.