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Native Plant Swap/Sale on Sunday, May 12Featured

9 AM – 2 PM

Where: 39 Courtland Avenue

Parking: On the street, or at the North Star Academy corner of Montford & Courtland

On May 12, we’ll hold our annual Native Plant Swap at Charlotte Caplan’s house on Courtland Avenue, in the Montford neighborhood of Asheville. This is our main fundraiser for the year, so come out to have fun choosing plants for your garden and support BRNN.

Our emphasis is on plants that are native to the Southern Appalachians. We’ll have foamflower, wild ginger, bloodroot, green and gold, bee-balm, mountain mint, joe-pye weed, sweetshrub, pawpaw, and many others. But we’ll accept non-natives too, even houseplants and vegetable starts, as long as they are not considered invasive in NC – see list on https://www.inaturalist.org/guides/2455 . Just a note—vegetable starts can only be swapped for vegetable starts.

No pots? Just save plastic containers from the recycling bin. Medium-sized yoghurt, cottage cheese, and sour cream pots are ideal. Poke a few holes in the bottom and voila! You can cut up a pot up to make labels, too. 

No plants to contribute? No problem. We’ll have a large stock for sale at a modest $4 each.

QUESTIONS? Contact Charlotte at ccaplannc1@juno.com

Birds, Past Events

Bird-Friendly Communities for Migratory SongbirdsFeatured

Tuesday, May 14, 7:00 pm

Watch the event on Youtube.


Twice a year, millions of neotropical songbirds migrate thousands of miles between their breeding and wintering grounds in North, Central, and South America. Migrating birds face many challenges during these periods, the greatest of which are human imposed. Fortunately, many of these threats are well understood, and numerous tools are available to help us provide safe passage for songbirds during their perilous migrations. This presentation will provide an overview of neotropical songbird migration, the unique challenges created by human-built environments, and solutions to enhance the bird-friendliness of our communities.

Paulina Jones is a western North Carolina local working to improve human-wildlife coexistence in her community. She is passionate about science communication and the intersection of wildlife ecology and policy. Jones is a co-founder of the Coalition for a Bird-Friendly Asheville and, in close coordination with the Blue Ridge Audubon Chapter, has been advocating for the adoption of bird-friendly community practices since 2020.