Root to Restaurant with Chef Geoff

A DIY Sustainability Workshop
with Chef Geoff • Oct 3, 9 AM – 1 PM:
Join Piedmont Biofarm’s own Chef Geoff Seelen as he teaches us to us a plant to its fullest! Learn to harvest smart, process to the fullest, and cook with a burning passion – from the root up.
Summer Snowball

It seems like our long, cool spring came to an abrupt end this year, and we’ve been slammed into intense summer heat. Usually this kind of heat tends to slow […]
New Nature Interpretive Trail at The Plant

For years I have been suggesting to the good people of Abundance that they build a trail around The Plant. It looks like it is finally happening. Piedmont Biofuels has […]
The 8th Annual Amazing Pepper Festival

An ABUNDANCE EVENT • SEP 27, 2015, 3 -7 PM:
PepperFest comes at the perfect time to celebrate the year’s harvest, enjoy the cooler weather after summer’s intense heat, and savor the deliciousness of Carolina peppers! It’s a chance to hang out with your friends, listen to fantastic live music, and sample all you can eat of pepper-themed dishes and beverages, made by dozens of star chefs, brewers, distillers and more, from central N.C.
Why on Earth do we do this to ourselves?

Every year, sometime around mid-August, I bolt up in bed in the middle of the night, and in a sweat, I wake my husband up and gasp, “We can’t possibly put on […]
The 7th Annual Amazing Pepper Festival

An ABUNDANCE EVENT • OCT. 5, 3 -7 PM:
PepperFest comes at the perfect time to celebrate the year’s harvest, enjoy the cooler weather after summer’s intense heat, and savor the deliciousness of Carolina peppers! It’s a chance to hang out with your friends, listen to fantastic live music, and sample all you can eat of pepper-themed dishes and beverages, made by dozens of star chefs, brewers, distillers and more, from central N.C.
Sustainability Tour of our Eco-Industrial Park

FIRST SUNDAY 1-2PM
Come visit and see a working sustainable biodiesel plant, a sustainable agriculture farm, a biodiversity garden, a green building model, an organic local food distributor, a huge solar array with shade-tolerant plants growing underneath it, a micro-distillery, and an organic pesticide/herbicide manufacturer, and much more!
Why Peppers Matter

The Amazing Pepper Festival got its start six years ago as a celebration of the seed saving work of Doug Jones at Piedmont Biofarm and a taste test of his […]