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STREET ADDRESS Polk County Corner Gibson St and Ward St 60 Gibson Street Columbus, NC 28722 (828) 894-8218 Phone (828) 894-5693 Fax Map & Mailing Information Recent Tweets This week on Almanac Gardener: Rain water harvesting & saving money on perennials Noon Sat & 11:30 am Sun UNC-TV [more] 
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North Carolina Cooperative Extension
is based at North Carolina's two land-grant institutions,
NC State University and
NC A&T State University,
in all 100 counties
and with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
Buying Local - NC 10% Campaign The newest effort to help save farmland is to spend 10% of your monthly food budget locally. A family of four will spend on average $400 a month on groceries. Ten percent of that is $40 a month that you can commit to buying local food. That's only $10 a week! Local citizens can help preserve our rural character by helping farmers earn a living from their farms. Polk County has three tailgate markets where locally grown foods can be purchased directly from our farmers. The Tryon Tailgate Market is on Thursday afternoon, the Saluda Tailgate Market on Friday afternoon and the Columbus Tailgate Market is on Saturday morning. Our tailgate markets open in April and remain open through November. According to the 2010 US Census we have 9,038 households in Polk County. Locally grown produce is available 8 months out of the year. If each household would spend 10% or $40 a month on locally grown food that would total $320 (8 months x $40) X 9,038 (# households) = $2.89 million dollars a year! News
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