Community Events

In honor of Earth Day MountainTrue members and the general public are invited to help clean up trash at Redmon Dam River Access in Madison County. Come help remove litter, illegally-dumped construction and industrial garbage, and tires from an otherwise lovely public access point to the French Broad River near the town of Marshall. MountainTrue…

Brannen Basham and Jill Jacobs, owners of Spriggly’s Beescaping, will be the featured guests with our covenant partner congregation, The Congregational Church, UCC, in Tryon, as they celebrate Earth Day 2024. Spriggly’s concentrates on habitat restoration and landscape design that supports and protects our native bees and pollinators. Their main focus is on education. Brannen…

Jackson county folks! Don’t miss this film being offered TWICE in your community thanks to our newest covenant partner congregation, Cullowhee United Methodist Church! The second showing will be at 7:00 pm on April 22nd at Cullowhee United Methodist Church. We hope you’ll attend this event to learn about ways to invest in the health…

Friends in Asheville! We're excited to co-sponsor the showing of this important film alongside our covenant partner congregation Jubilee Community! Join us at the West Asheville Library in the community room from 6-8pm on April 23rd. We look forward to being with you!   About the film: Common Ground is the highly anticipated sequel to the…

Join the Creation Care Alliance for a time of ecumenical prayer in the Educational Garden at Land of the Sky UCC in Asheville. Our service will be followed by refreshments in the fellowship hall in addition to an opportunity to put your hands in the soil. Please bring a blanket or camping chair if you…

Enjoy Peter Mayer, Live with our covenant partner congregation, UU Asheville, on Saturday, April 27th at 7PM. Music to feed the soul and our creation caring! Minnesota’s Peter Mayer has been singing and songwriting full-time for over 20 years, performing in venues across the United States and beyond. He writes songs for a small planet–songs…

Join MountainTrue’s Green Riverkeeper and Liquidlogic Co-founder Shane Benedict for the 14th Annual Green River Spring Cleaning! We’ll meet at the Fishtop Access at 10:00 AM on Saturday, May 4th where we will divide into teams and then get on the river to pull out as much litter as possible before the summer paddling season.…

MountainTrue, in partnership with the Mainspring Conservation Trust and Pinnacle Park Foundation, will be hosting invasive plant removal workdays at the Pinnacle Park in Sylva, NC this spring. Workdays will be targeting nonnative invasive vines and shrubs like English Ivy, Burning Bush, and Multiflora Rose which are notorious for outcompeting native flora. Come out and…

Join us at Valle Crucis Community Park as we celebrate the launch of the 2024 Swim Guide Season. At the event, we will provide training on Swim Guide methods and interested folks will have the opportunity to register to volunteer for the 2024 Swim Guide season. This is also a chance to meet our hard-working…

Join French Broad Paddle Trail Manager, Jack Henderson, as he participates in Headwaters Outfitters’ Annual Upper French Broad River Clean-up Day. This is not a MountainTrue-hosted event. Headwaters Outfitters supports MountainTrue, and we would love to help them in return. Event info: The French Broad River Clean-Up remains the best volunteer gig in town! Since…

Join Creation Care Sunday Forum June 9th at 9:15 to share your experiences of meeting God in nature as you explore drawing wildflowers and hear about native plant dyes with two local naturalists. Practice mindfulness in nature and experience the sacred in the ordinary. After the 10:30 service, meet outside to carpool to Camp Daniel…

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville is presenting a discussion on the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Sunday, June 9th, from 4:00 - 6:00 pm. Blue Horizons Project will be present to answer questions. Contact Venny at vpwz5258@gmail.com for more information and make plans to attend.