With prices skyrocketing higher every time we go to the store, the series of events Greensboro has planned for families this fall might actually come in very helpful since we may all be on the verge or having to catch our own meat and forage the woods for vegetables.
Here’s what’s coming up from the City of Greensboro:
- Family Fishing Evenings
Friday, October 10, and Friday, October 24 from 5-6:30 pm at Lake Higgins, 4235 Hamburg Mill Rd.
The city describes this as a “catch and release fishing program designed for people of all ages.” Bait, fishing poles and chairs will be provided if you don’t have your own. The event will be held around the Education Pond at Lake Higgins, which is located immediately to the left of the Marina office. It’s not free though: Registration is required with a fee of $5 per person. But you know what they say: “Teach a man to fish…”
Each person who plans to fish has to sign up separately.
- Beginner Archery Clinic
Thursday, October 16, and Thursday, October 30 at 5-6:30 pm at Shelter 10 at Bryan Park, 6275 Bryan Park Rd.
This event is open to beginners and pros alike. It will take place at the archery range at Bryan Park Shelter 10. Equipment will be provided, and personal equipment won’t be allowed to be used at the range for these clinics. The city notes that attendees should be aware that there will be limited targets – so participants will take turns using the targets.
Shelter 10 in Bryan Park can be found just before the turn into Lake Townsend Marina. Registration is required with a fee of $5 per person. If you get good enough, you might be able to bring home some venison at a cost of $0 per pound.
- Urban Foraging
Wednesday, October 22 at 5:30-6:30 pm at Meeting Place Park, 801 W. Smith St.
The forest is chock full of free food; the trick is not eating the stuff that will kill you. If you don’t know much about that, you can join the Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department to learn about sustainable foraging techniques. This event will introduce attendees to the basics of urban foraging – including gathering wild foods, medicinal herbs, and craft materials. (They probably will not teach you which mushrooms get you high.) This program will take place along the Downtown Greenway, at Meeting Place Park– at the corner of Smith and Prescott streets. Registration is required. Drop-ins are welcome if space permits.
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Dude, you should really avoid replying to these articles when you’re wasted.
i’m effluent (retired plmbr)
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He’s not wasted. He’s just incapable of writing lucid, intelligible English.
Draw your own conclusion.
This is supposed to deflection our attention from the parasitic govt downtown?
How is this going to help when our local government is more concerned with selling all the farmland off to “big’ business”? They sell the land than we could be living off of to business, giving the business big tax breaks and passing along the cost to the citizens of the county. Why do you think business is wanting to move here. It’s because wages are lower here. And then you allow builders to build the $500,000 homes that no one can afford. What about our growing retirement population. We lived here and contributed all of our working years and what do we get in return? NOTHING!!! No tax breaks because the city and county keep selling land and we have to pay for it. No tax breaks for those of us now living on a fixed income. That’s why we are looking for homes in states that have free property taxes for the elderly and homes that no only the elderly can afford but also homes that the college graduates and those starting to work can afford. Wake up Greensboro or you will be the ones sitting here with no one wanting to live here any longer. You bring in outside companies to run the coliseum instead of someone that knows the people that live here. People that would love to be able to afford to go to an event but the cost is way out of line. Greensboro was a wonderful town to live in when the people that lived here could afford to take advantage of the entertainment and jobs here. Looks like the leaders of this town would rather bring in the business that drains every person dry and forget that this town was founded on the mill workers and factory workers. Now they want nothing but the millionaires to be able to live here. And to support this kind of life they are trying to build they have to charge more for everything. Government forgets about the people that built this town. When going to sporting events packed the house because we could afford it. Now you have to pay an arm and a leg to go to just one hockey game. Forget season tickets. This isn’t New York City!! Remember this the next time you vote!!!
JaniceC – My husband will think I wrote this, except you didn’t gripe more than once about all the trees they keep cutting down. You said everything I wanted to say. I do want to specifically point out that the City and County bring this upon themselves by recruitng big businesses that attract thousands of workers demanding expensive housing and amenities while expecting those who have lived here for years before them to bear the tax burden, and change in our preferred way of life, without our consent, while being told we are archaic and wrong for not wanting these changes. Thank you for your comments. There are many others out here who agree with your statements.
they think they are doing our culture a favor by stuffing as many “constituents’ (their power) into as small a footprint as possible then moving outward eliminating nature by covering it with infrastructure that is not farming. they successfully defend this because we parasites DEMAND it too much ?