Mast General Store will celebrate this year’s Land Trust Day on June 1, marking the 16th year for this important event. Land conservancy partners will be in each location sharing news of their latest easements, upcoming hikes and outings, and how you can help save open spaces.
At the end of the day, the Mast Store in Hendersonville will donate 20% of the day’s sales to Conserving Carolina to enable this group to continue its work.
John Muir said, “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” That sentiment is even truer today in our fast-paced world. We need, we require, the healing touch of nature for mind, body, and soul.
While land trusts save beautiful places, the work they do is important on many levels. Aside from ensuring clean water and wildlife habitat, land trusts also help family farms stay in the family and culturally important pieces of land remain in their original states.
The Hendersonville store will partner with Conserving Carolina which is a conservation organization working to preserve water and land resources in Western North Carolina. So far the organization has helped protect over 45,000 acres! Lands that Conserving Carolina has helped protect include many of region’s most popular areas for recreation, such as DuPont State Recreational Forest, Chimney Rock State Park, Headwaters State Forest, parts of the Green River Game Lands, Bearwallow Mountain, a growing trail network in the Hickory Nut Gorge, and local greenways.
Stop by any Mast Store on Saturday, June 1 to learn more about land trusts and to support conservation efforts in the local area. For more information, call the Mast Store in Hendersonville at 828-696-1883.