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, 4215 NC 86 South, Chapel Hill.

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!

Want to learn more about native plants?

Join us for our free Dig Deeper talk on Sept. 14, 2-3:30 p.m., at the Orange County Library, 137 W. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough.

The speakers will be Linda Bell and Julee Herbert, who are both Master Gardener volunteers in Orange County.

Register here.

(Photo of butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) by Mary Keim, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.)

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: Saturdays, 8 a.m. to noon, in April and May and the first two Saturdays in June. We’ll be back on the first Saturday after Labor Day!

Eno River Farmers’ Market:Third Saturday of month, 8 a.m. to noon, through October. Upcoming dates: Sept. 20 and Oct. 18.