Elizabeth City Area Convention & Visitors Bureau Posts New Online Holiday Gift Guide

Contact: Elizabeth Evans, Cahoon & Cross
Phone: (757) 420-6944
eevans@cahoonandcross.com
Elizabeth City Area Convention & Visitors Bureau Posts New Online Holiday Gift Guide
New feature showcases gift items and foods unique to Elizabeth City
(Elizabeth City, NC, Nov. 23, 2009) – Targeting visitors who are searching for an old-fashioned holiday shopping experience with unusual finds, the Elizabeth City Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (ECACVB) has posted a new online Holiday Gift Guide at www.DiscoverElizabethCity.com.

Showcasing a variety of Elizabeth City shops and one-of-a-kind gift ideas, the Web feature presents everything from original artwork, jewelry and handmade soaps to specialty wines and foods made in the Elizabeth City area.

"We have such a wonderful array of shops, art galleries, and specialty stores, offering items you won’t find anywhere else," said ECACVB Director Charlotte Underwood. "We are highlighting handcrafted, delightful gifts that are unique to our 'Harbor of Hospitality.'®" [read more]

Hide-N-Wood Gardens: May Event!

The Pasquotank Master Gardeners Volunteers are holding a plant sale at Hide-N-Wood gardens, 923 Wellfield Road, Elizabeth City on May 10th, at 9:00 am until noon. Native plants, shrubs, will be featured. FMI please call 252-312-4970.

Hide-N-Wood Gardens April Events

Contact: Duane McSmith
Phone: 252-312-4970
E-mail: duanemcs@inteliport.com

Hide-N-Wood Gardens April Events:

Hide-N-Wood Gardens, 923 Wellfield Road, Elizabeth City is open during daylight for visitation without an appointment. The gardens consist of a small fruit and vegetable area growing in eight raised beds and four elevated beds. There is a native plant area as well as a rain garden. FMI 252-312-4970.

Visit Duane McSmith at Hide-In-Wood Gardens, call 252-312-4970 for appointment

Contact: Tom M. Campbell, Extension Agent, Agriculture
Phone: 252-338-3954
E-mail: thomas_campbell@ncsu.edu

Hide-N-Wood Enabling Demonstration Garden for people with mobility challenges was first featured on UNC-TV in October of 2006.

Group tours are available to this unique enabling garden of raised beds and elevated planters suitable for gardening from wheel chairs or standing up without great bending. Weed reduction and concentrated production in very small spaces are features of this system of gardening. This type of educational garden attraction is very rare in the United States. As 60-70 million Americans retire in the next 15 years, gardening of this sort may become much more popular. Below are links that will tell you instructions for starting simple raised beds and elevated planters for low maintenance gardening.

Call Duane McSmith at 252-312-4970 to set an appointment to see Hide-N-Wood Garden or come without appointment and browse the grounds as you wish during daylight hours. Use the four parking spaces reserved at the front entrance where the sign says "Garden Parking".

Links on Hide-N-Wood Gardens:
- More About Hide-N-Wood Gardens
- Making a Raised Bed with Cider Blocks
- Remove Existing Soil Design
- Mixing Soils & Gardening in Self Watering Containers
- Constructing the Frame of an Elevated bed

Hide-N-Wood Gardens

Come and visit Hide-N-Wood Gardens!! The garden consists of eight raised beds and four elevated beds. Throughout the year, you can see demonstrations of intensified gardening techniques on small fruits and vegetables. In addition, portions of the garden have been designed as a Native Plant Habitat by NC NPS.

Hide-N-Wood Gardens will be open to the general public, daylight hours, from March 1st to November 30 2008. With emphasis on food production by persons with a physical or mental handicap.

To find out more about Hide-N-Wood Gardens please call 252-331-7010.

Hide-N-Wood Gardens

Hide-N-Wood Gardens
is a real life, show-it like-it-is demonstration garden.

Open to general public from March to November, during daylight hours.

Of interest to;

Persons with an interest in small fruits and vegetables. Will see demonstrations of intensified gardening techniques used throughout the year.

Persons with mobility problems. The food section of the garden consists of eight raised beds and four elevated beds.

Persons, or their care givers, with dementia problems. The gardens are arraigned to meet the recommendations of the National Alzheimer’s Association.

Persons with an interest in native plants of North Carolina. Portions of the garden has been designated as a Native Plant Habitat by the NC Native Plant Society. Of special interest is the Rain Garden established using native plants.


Directions to Hide-N-Wood Gardens:
From Elizabeth City take Halstead Blvd. NW to Thunder Road, turn right on Thunder Road which dead-ends on Wellfield Rd. Turn right on Wellfield and just ahead is 923 Wellfield with white PVC entryway to Hide-N-Wood Gardens.

If you have Questions and/or comments please call 252-312-4970. Photo Credit: Hide-N-Wood Gardens - August 2006 by Jessica Faulkingham.