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Live out your HGTV dreams during Asheville’s Parade of Homes 🏠
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This year’s Parade of Homes will feature more than 30 homes built by members of the Builder’s Association of the Blue Ridge Mountains. | Photo provided by Buchanan Construction
Your home should be just as memorable as the life you live in it, but choosing how to design a new home or renovation to support + enhance your lifestyle can make it hard to break ground. That’s why the Parade of Homes — happening across WNC Oct., 8-9 and Oct. 15-16, 2022 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. — is a home owner’s dream.

Produced by the Home Builders Association, the free event features more than 30 tours of recently constructed homes ft. the latest in building trends, technology + interior design so you can learn what you like (and what you don’t) when building your own dream home.

View of kitchen with wooden island and barstools.

Guests can kick off their day at the Kimberly Avenue Modern: a fully renovated home located in Asheville’s Historic Grove Park area.

Photo provided by Buchanan Construction


This year’s tour includes five homes by Buchanan Construction, with the chance to view and take home floor plans and design Selection Guides (think: paint colors, cabinetry and countertop selections, and more) for inspiration. Tour goers also get to speak with builders, designers and architects about their own decision-making processes and pro tips (read: free professional input ).

Here are four must-see homes to add to your list:
  1. The Kimberly Ave. Modern | 462 Kimberly Ave., Asheville
  2. The Bradford Cottage | 8 Fay Jones Ln., Black Mountain
  3. The Sanctuary at Crest Mountain | 65 Destination Dr., Asheville
  4. The Oakley Modern | 220 Torch Light Way, Asheville
Pro tip: Each of these homes is raffling off a custom twin-bed porch swing (delivery + install included - yes, please) with proceeds benefiting four local charities.

Tips before you tour:
  • Plan which homes you want to visit ahead of time.
  • No tickets are required for tours, but sign up for a reminder.
  • Pick up a copy of the Parade of Homes magazine — free from Buchanan Construction.
  • Make a weekend out of it — enjoy some of WNC’s best restaurants along your tour route and peep some fall leaves along the way. 🍂
Can’t make it? Take a virtual tour of select locations at any time.*
TOUR HOMES AND GET INSPIRED
This content was created in partnership with Buchanan Construction and written by Lainey Merriwether.*
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Today
  • Fall Color Photography Webinar | Thurs., Oct. 6 | 11 a.m. | Virtual | Free | Register to get celebrated photographer J. Scott Graham’s tips for finding + capturing fall color on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
  • Calm Before the Storm | Thu., Oct. 6 | 7-9 p.m. | Painting with a Twist, 2133 Hendersonville Rd., Arden | $36+ | Paint an evocative pre-storm landscape. 🎨
Friday
  • Bleedseason Presents: Halloween 6.0 | Fri., Oct. 7 | 8 p.m. | The Odd, 1045 Haywood Rd. | $15 | This all-ages event includes live entertainment, a tattoo raffle, and a costume contest.
  • Tastes of Tour | Fri., Oct. 7 | 5:30-8 p.m. | Address provided upon registration | $85 | Enjoy hibachi-style eats while getting a sneak peek at one of the houses featured in this year’s Parade of Homes.
  • Appalachia Day | Fri., Oct. 7 | 6-9 p.m. | Hickory Nut Gap Farm | Free | Celebrate Hickory Nut Gap Farm + Southern Appalachian Highland Conservancy with live music, delicious food, and plenty of cold beer.
Saturday
  • Oktoberfest | Sat., Oct. 8 | 12 p.m. | Mills River Brewing Co., 336 Banner Farm Rd., Mills River | Free | Celebrate the release of the Oktoberfest beer with a costume party and live music. 🍺
  • WNC Farmers Market Harvest Festival | Sat., Oct. 8 | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | WNC Farmers Market, 570 Brevard Rd., Asheville | Free | Celebrate fall with local food, games, hayrides, live music, and don’t forget to meet local farmers at the market.*
  • Kenilworth Artists Association 2022 studio tour | Sat., Oct. 8-Sun., Oct. 9 | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Kenilworth neighborhood | Free | 28 local artists will show work across a variety of mediums, including oil, watercolor, acrylic, jewelry ceramics, glass, wood, fiber, paper, photography + more. *
Plan Ahead
  • Fall Reds Wine Dinner | Thu., Oct. 13 | 6 p.m. | Ivory Road Cafe, 1854 Brevard Rd., Arden | $58 per person, $74 with optional wine pairing | This five-course dinner features autumnal fare incorporating red wines. 🍷
  • Blueprint Breakfast for Dinner | Thu., Oct. 13 | 5:30 p.m. | Rabbit Rabbit | $120 | Enjoy breakfast-inspired dishes at this collaborative event which supports local affordable housing.
  • Medieval Crimes Dinner Show | Thu., Oct. 13 - Sun., Oct. 16 | 7:30 p.m. | James Thomas Black Box Theatre, Mars Hill University, 28 College St., Mars Hill | $30.00 - $45.00 | The artist director of Medieval Times Dinner Show in Pigeon Forge is guest directing this hilarious murder mystery experience like none other in WNC.*
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Weather
  • 74º | Sunny | 3% chance of rain
Open
  • Tex-Mex eatery Andale Way Mexican Grill has opened at 63 Southside Ave. in the space formerly occupied by Iconic Kitchen & Drinks. The restaurant boasts an extensive menu of burritos, fajitas + tacos, as well as surprises like fusion ramen bowls. 🌮 (Asheville Citizen-Times)
Civic
  • At its Tues., Oct. 4 meeting, Buncombe County Commissioners approved a budget amendment for six conservation easement projects. Roughly 590 acres of area farmland and environmentally sensitive tracts will be protected. (WLOS)
Traffic
  • The Merrimon Avenue road diet will begin Mon., Oct. 10. The process (explained more here) will reduce sections of the road from four lanes to three and is expected to take two nights, depending on the weather. (Asheville Citizen-Times)
Regional
  • The “We Are Grateful Otsaliheliga” Storybook Trail will run Sat., Oct. 8-Fri., Nov. 4 on the Oconaluftee River Trail near Cherokee (~ an hour west of Asheville). The one-mile, self-guided trail teaches visitors about Cherokee culture through storybook panels in both Cherokee + English languages.
Cause
  • The Asheville Habitat ReStore (31 Meadow Rd.) will hold its Fall Sale on Sat., Oct. 8 from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Folks can get 25% off and sales help fund the organization’s local housing assistance programs. This sale does not apply to the Weaverville ReStore.
  • Looking for a fur-ever love? Through Sat., Oct. 8, all adoption fees are waived for approved adopters at the Asheville Humane Society. 🐾
The Buy
  • Thinking about your fall garden? Through Sat., Oct. 8, The Farm Connection (2161 NC 213 Hwy., Marshall) is offering 40% off fall veggie starts, 20% off row cover supplies, and 20% off fall bulbs — including garlic. 🌱
DYK
  • Wondering how to find great new music? Music shop Harvest Records (415 Haywood Rd. Ste. B) offers the Easy Listening Vinyl Club, a year-long, hyper-personalized record subscription service. Also cool? Subscriptions come with hand printed bags each month.
Announced
  • By becoming an AVLtoday member, you’ll directly support our mission of offering our newsletter, social content, and website access for free to all Ashevillians (read: no pesky paywalls). Learn more + sign up.
Outdoors
  • Notice an uptick in any of these feathered friends in your backyard lately? Keep them safe from colliding with your windows — a cause of death for millions of birds each year — by throwing up some decals like these. We love these leaf designs too to keep things festive for fall.*
Edu
  • Odyssey School recently announced the hiring of Dr. Eric Howard as Head of School. Dr. Howard, who goes by “Big E”, moved into the job in late September. He brings 15+ years of educational experience to the position. Congrats, Dr. Howard. *
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Call the midwife

Midwifery services in Asheville, NC
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WNC’s impressive midwifery history continues today. | Photo via @westashevilleyoga
In addition to changing leaves and festivals galore, there’s another cool happening this October: National Midwifery Week. Taking place Sun., Oct. 2-Sat., Oct. 8, the event is designed to celebrate and recognize midwives and the care they provide.

Psst, if you didn’t know: midwives are trained health professionals who help women during labor, delivery, and after the birth of their babies. And they have an impressive legacy in WNC. While the majority of the country’s midwives practice in hospital settings, others practice in birthing centers and private practices and provide in-home birth services.

In honor of this special week, we’re shouting out 9 local midwifery services. Show them some love + bookmark this in case you ever need their services:
OH, BABY
THE WRAP

Today’s issue was written by Brook.

Editor’s pick: DYK Tempie Avery Community Center in Montford is named for local midwife, Tempie Avery? Maybe I’m biased based on my own home birth, but I think mIdwives are magic.

Missed yesterday’s newsletter? Find out about the star-studded history of the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI).
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