update: if you like this post, please subscribe to my blog! Thankyou!** IS A FABULOUS HORSE FARM IN YOUR FUTURE?** If you love horses and horse country, you will love a special place I know of near Asheville, North Carolina. I guess it's no secret that just under an hour's easy drive from Ashevi
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05/30/2007
As a REALTOR, seems to me that getting inside a different perspective (that of the client) is a valuable skill... Let me know what you think...as in this verse written on Memorial Day.I remember today the young people.For thousands of years they have gone off to war,surrendered their lives for t
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05/28/2007
STEWARDSHIP OPPORTUNITY Picture the charm of a graceful Asheville, North Carolina neighborhood in the early nineteen hundreds. It's a Spring day in Asheville, a hundred ago, and you are relaxing on your side porch, sipping a lemonade, and listening to the laughter of children playing
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05/27/2007
We are a vocal community here in Asheville, very much involved in what is happening in the way of development and plans for positive futures for all concerned. One example, the Downtown Association just released this item: News Release Urban Advisors Lecture of Economic Growth for Downtown A
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05/17/2007
Critical issues face horse men and women in North Carolina. According to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture these challenges include: "loss of areas to ride, zoning laws limiting horse ownership, liability problems of riding stables, and rapid development." Still horses are a way of
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05/13/2007
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, we enjoy fresh produce here in North Carolina. Farmers' markets and tail gate markets make locally-grown foods from our neighbors' farms readily available. However, as our population surges and development moves out toward rural lands, farm prosperity and f
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05/10/2007
Love really fresh food that is really, really good for you? Here's information about a safe and nutritious food supply produced, marketed and distributed in a eco-wise way; that adds value to rural and urban communities, alike, right here in North Carolina. The Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture
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05/09/2007
UPDATE: Gather a dozen or so people for ideas on managing mountainside development, and they're likely to come up with a dozen or so different ideas. The Land-of-Sky Regional Council found out as much as a group of government planners, builders and landowners met for the second of five meetings
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05/07/2007
If you make your home in North Carolina, you will find many a grassroots organization at work in communities across the State. Most promote stewardship in the form of "Smart Growth, sustainable development and/or the protection and to preservation of natural habitats, land, water and air resourc
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05/06/2007
UPDATED 5/8/2007 ..development-related storyHungry bears attack dogs in mountain backyards (see below) This is the first in a 3-part series on VIEWS.I'll start by asking you a question. When you leave your abode, be it a youthful yurt or a lofty lodge, does what you see as you walk out the
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05/06/2007