"Welcome to The Farm and the Habitat for Humanity 2013 Home & Garden Tour!"
 
Laura Carringer, complete with her Habitat for Humanity's "Women Work" T-shirt on and flower-on-hat, warmly greeted guests attending the Habitat's Home and Garden Tour of The Farm in Banner Elk on Saturday. 
Photo by Ron Johnson  
 
Keep going down the screen to see 
more pictures from the Home & Garden Tour
 

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
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2013 Home & Garden Tour
The Farm at Banner Elk
September 14, 2013
A benefit for Habitat for Humanity

Photos by Ron Johnson

It was a perfect "10" day at The Farm
for the Home & Garden Tour

 

The Farm has consistently been named one of the Best North Carolina Mountain Communities. The unique topography features rolling hillsides at the foot of majestic mountains giving way to meadows, pastures and ponds. 

 

Hanging Rock Creek, home to native trout, bisects the property.

The community meticulously blends home sites into the surrounding native vegetation. 

 

Century-old giant hemlocks mix with large thickets of mountain laurels to provide a natural setting for carefully planned properties. The Farm is a unique environment fully integrating a private lifestyle with a uniquely rustic flavor.

 

 

Avery County Habitat for Humanity is a locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing organization. 

 

Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing. The houses then are sold to those in need at no profit and with no interest charged.

 

Volunteers provide most of the labor, and individual, church, and corporate donors provide the resources necessary to build Habitat houses. 

 

Partner families themselves invest hundreds of hours of labor - "sweat equity" - into building their homes and the homes of others, as well as may serve at the affiliate's ReStore. Homeowner mortgage payments are recycled back into the program to build more houses.

 

Click here for the Habitat website

 

On the tour

 

THE DICKENS HOME

Originally built in the 1930's by two sisters, the Nook was once a three room cottage, one of The Farm's original dwellings.

 

THE MATTHEW'S HOME

Houston and Shea Matthews have a farmhouse with a history.

Though it has been beautifully brought up-to-date, the house is about 

125-years old. Originally built by Henry Banner (as in Banner Elk).

 

THE WELTON HOME

Laura and Scott Welton of Charlotte bought their home

at The Farm seven years ago mainly as a great meeting place

for family vacations.

 


Left to right: Katha Purser, a landscape architect, sold her home to Laura and Scott Welton (that's Scott in the middle). At right is Welton neighbor and "Artist in Residence" Kerry Barrett.

Left to right: Kathy Boles, Annette DeLeot and Laura Welton

Rebecca and Allen Bolick, left, purchased a plant for their home at the tour from Cristy Brown, right, of Vaughn's Nursery. 
Left to right: Lynelle Dancy, Nancy Erickson and Kathy Huelsemann

Kerry Barrett, a Farm resident and "Artist in Residence" at The Farm
painted in the Welton garden during the tour.

The Chapel, at left, at the Matthew's home was of great interest
to folks on the home and garden tour. Houston Matthews, an Episcopal minister, noted during the tour that the chapel uses icons rather than stained glass to reflect both Eastern and Western Christianity.


Photos by Ron Johnson
A magnificent Elk over the Welton home fireplace
 
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