Get Your Garden On! Don’t Miss Seed Starting with John Bowen on Saturday, February 18 at 2pm Our 2023 Seed Library season kicks off with Master Gardener and a favorite instructor, John Bowen showing us his many tips and tricks for starting seeds and growing transplants at home. John will bring a variety of pots and…
Top Posts from the Friends this Year (2022) It’s the end of an amazing year at @folblackmountain! Thank you!!! Sharing all of our happenings, discoveries, tips, and smiles with you has truly been a pleasure, and your engagement and support of the Friends has been absolutely phenomenal. In reflecting back on the year, we wanted…
Sowing Circle Presents: Seed Starting with John Bowen Saturday, February 18 @ 2pm This is an in-person event at the Education Room at the Black Mountain Library. Master Gardener, John Bowen, kicks off the opening of the Sowing Circle season and the Seed Library! John will offer instructions, tips and tricks on starting your seeds and…
Seed Library Volunteer Opportunity You likely know that the Black Mountain Library has an active Seed Library! In addition to a variety of seeds, we offer programs during the growing season. We are seeking a volunteer to become our Seed Library Program Chair. To that end, we are searching for a volunteer who enjoys organizing and…
Library Float Wins Award in Parade Our parade float, “Black Mountain Public Library: Bringing Joy for 100 Years” to commemorate our centennial, won second place in the annual Black Mountain Holiday Parade! We had a blast as we marched along State Street greeting the crowd with a LIBRARY chant, waving and tossing candy. Thank you to all our…
Gift Giving Made Easy If you are struggling with gift ideas, consider supporting your public library through the Friends of the Library! Your support helps provide the library and community with important resources including newspaper subscriptions, large print books, extra programming and more. We’ve made it easy for you to support the Friends. Giving the…
Calling All Creatives for a Collaborative Community Art Show 📚🎨 In another cool collaboration between our library and the art center, everyone is invited to take part in a community art show that will be held February 3-24, 2023 at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts! This show is a fundraiser with the proceeds from the…
August was National Wellness Month and Fours Sisters Bakery chose the Friends of the Black Mountain Library as their charity. $1,000 or 100% of their walnut brownie sales were raised and donated for library efforts! Co-owner and baker, Dorothy Goodman, believes that “books, reading, imagination and education are key parts to our wellbeing.” After a…
If you’ve strolled past the Library Container Gardens you may have thought that they are either empty or have a crop of weeds growing. Neither! We completed a few chores to put our container gardens to bed for the winter. We pulled out the annual plants including tomatoes, beans and basil and composted the plant…
National Friends of Libraries Week celebrates the work of friends groups nationwide and what better way to celebrate than to support the Friends of the Black Mountain Library? This is a great time to become a member or provide an additional financial gift, or explore other ways to support below. The FOL supports your local…