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What a wonderful Harvest Fest
Thank you to everyone who made Harvest Fest an heart warming community event. What a special evening.
It was so wonderful to share a potluck dinner with everyone.
Transylvania Shares was onsite and brought their grinding mill. I brought in corn I had grown and it was milled into grits and flour. …
Harvest Fest is this Thursday. Let’s prepare a meal together!
Join us this Thursday for Harvest Fest! We will be using the stuff from our local sharing club Transylvania Shares. We will be grinding corn and making fresh cornbread. We will have a pot of beans on. This is a potluck meal. Bring something if you can. We will have …
Now serving wine by the glass
We have an amazing selection of beverages from beer to cider to mead to seltzers to soft drinks to kombuchas to wine. We have served all of our beverages by the “glass” except for wine. Well, that has changed. We now serve wine by the glass. We received a request …
Our new fire pit is ready, complete with a cooking crane
Last year we had a small fire pit in our beer garden so that folks could enjoy time together outdoors when we could not serve inside. The fire pit quickly became a local meeting spot and folks starting asking if we could add an additional one.
We have removed that fire …
We attended Blacktoberfest and brought back some exciting beers!
Blacktoberfest was held in Durham, NC on October 9th. We sold the beer from the first Blacktoberfest and it was a huge hit so we wanted to see what other beverages we could bring back. It was a wonderful event. There were numerous beers brewed for the festival this …
Bottle shop keeps growing through your requests. Thank you.
December 12, 2020 we opened a bottle shop to help us get through COVID when we were not able to serve refreshments onsite. The shop was so popular we have kept it going since fully reopening and we continue to enjoy working with folks to bring in their …
DuPont Forest Festival
2021 DuPont Forest Festival
On Saturday September 25, 2021 (National Public Lands Day)* Friends of DuPont Forest will host the 4th annual DuPont Forest Festival, a FREE event celebrating the adventure, wilderness and beauty of DuPont State Recreational Forest.
Sept. 25, 2021
10am-2pm
Guion Farm Access Area in DuPont State Recreational Forest
3045 Sky Valley …
Thanksgiving Potluck at the Canteen
So many folks don’t have a place to share Thanksgiving dinner. Last year at the Canteen we had a private, small socially distanced potluck for a few of us and it was wonderful.
This year we have decided to host a community potluck on Thanksgiving day. If you cannot bring a …
Feta Flav Mediterranean Food Truck returning! You asked when they were coming back and now you know.
The Feta Flav Mediterranean food truck visited August 23rd and were a huge hit. Everyone has been asking when they are coming back and they asked when they get to come back. Cedar Mountain showed them what a wonderfully supportive community we are and it was a wonderful evening.
We now …
Community Pop-up Kitchen with Transylvania Shares October 28th!
Join us for a community pop-up kitchen October 28th. Transylvania Shares will have a grinding mill onsite for those who have things you want to turn into flour, grits or meal like corn, beans, and grain. We will be making apple cider vinegar as a community and you can take …
Join us Monday for a new food truck Feta Flav! Yum
We are excited to welcome Feta Flav, a Mediterranean food truck to the beer garden Monday, August 23rd from 3-7pm. Their food is amazing and they have vegan and vegetarian options! Please join us and welcome them to Cedar Mountain.
A mountain music …
Mountain Music Jam Sunday from 3-5pm and Monday starting at 5 pm
Join us for a mountain music jam from 3 to 5 pm!
We have a new line of non-alcoholic sparkling waters from DRAM. Untitled Art’s non-alcoholic beers have arrived
Non-alcoholic healthy beverages continues to be a growing segment of our inventory because we are getting so many requests. We also have a growing request for non-alcoholic beers and our inventory of those has increased significantly. There are so many delicious options popping up!
DRAM produces herbal sparkling waters some with …
Mountain Music Jam in our Beer Garden
We are super excited to welcome a mountain music jam in our beer garden on Sunday, August 8th from 3 – 5 pm. Our local Farmer Phil has contacted a few of his friends and asked them to join him in a jam and we get to watch. We look …
Thursday’s Mead Tasting has been postponed. The community potluck is still going on. Looking forward to it.
The Meadhouse Meadary of Brevard has had to reschedule their mead tasting scheduled for this Thursday. We will still have our community potluck and community discussion. We look forward to an amazing time together.
Billy Smith’s Art on Display
We have a lot of wall space and it was begging for art. We are so excited to announce our first art display featuring the work of Billy Smith, a local artist. Billy’s art is available for sale (and has already sold) and will be on display until July 19th. …
We now have Pleb wine.
Pleb is an urban winery in Asheville, NC. They produce a variety of wines using NC products. They do experimental wines and traditional. We visited their facility and were treated to an introduction of their products by Lauren. We now have a variety of them available in our bottle shop. …
Testing the Little River for Water Quality
When we purchased the Canteen we were very excited to have access to the Little River so we could share this jewel with the community. We also are very conscious of the need to keep the river protected so we looked at ways we could raise awareness of the river …
We have a caricature artist on-site July 1, 2 & 3rd. Super fun!
July 1, 2 & 3, Jarred Lee (our grandson) is on-site as a caricature artist. He can draw as you sit for him or take a picture and draw from it if you want to roam. He is fantastic and folks walk away with smiles and laughter as they receive …
Alcoholic Beverages with Mushrooms? Sparkling CBD Water. Interesting beverages.
Pulp Culture Hard Pressed Juices are alcoholic beverages with a variety of ingredients including mushrooms. Yea, mushrooms. Since we have started curating our bottle shop collection it has been 
amazing to learn how many kinds of beverages there are. We have …
Events
Events are held rain or shine. In event of rain, events are held indoors.
We strive to waste nothing. Want to help? Bring your own glass/cup. It is that simple.
We are pet friendly. Well behaved dogs on leash are welcome in our garden. We are a zero-waste, pack-it-in, pack-it-out public house. Please be prepared to take your waste with you.