Greenways make it easy for people to get out in nature, exercise, and get around safely without adding cars to the roads. Check out the draft Henderson County Greenway Master Plan and share your opinion.
Would you want to go back to nature when you’re gone? Carolina Memorial Sanctuary in Mills River offers a place for people to return their loved ones to the earth, in harmony with nature.
How many ways can you play with a stick? You can break it in pieces, you can draw in the dirt with it, you can talk about it, you can share it with a friend. A baby on her belly with a stick in her hand could be making discoveries that light up her brain.
Caroline Yongue founded the first conservation burial ground in North Carolina. It started when her Buddhist teacher asked her to figure out how to take care of a dead body, without embalming, to be taken care of by family and friends.
A new path along NC 280—the Mills River Valley Trail—will create a safe route for walking and biking, linking the heart of Mills River to the French Broad River.
“I have felt this land in my heart, in my soul, for as long as I can remember,” Joe Thomas says. He chose to donate his family land near Fletcher, as a nature preserve for the whole community.