More NC Tomatoman events

Raleigh’s heirloom tomato expert, Craig LeHoullier, author of the new gardening book “Epic Tomatoes,” has several upcoming events.

The North Raleigh gardener is well known in the Triangle as the co-founder of the Tomatopalooza tomato tasting events, which he organized at locations across the Triangle for a decade. He is also well known in national heirloom gardening circles for naming and saving the Cherokee Purple tomato. His book is in its third printing.

▪ LeHoullier will teach a tomato cooking class alongside farmer Alex Hitt of Peregrine Farm at 6 p.m. July 23 at Southern Season in Chapel Hill. The menu includes: tomato and corn salad, roasted Roma tomato crostata, scallops with tomato-bacon butter and tomato cake with basil sorbet. The class costs $40. To register, call 919-929-7133 or go to southernseason.com.

▪ LeHoullier will speak at the Well Fed Community Garden in West Raleigh from 10-11:30 a.m. July 25. Tickets cost $25. For more information and to register, go to worldoftomatoes.eventbrite.com.

▪ He will return to Southern Season for a pepper cooking class alongside Hitt of Peregrine Farm at 6 p.m. Sept. 3. The menu will be arugula and pepper salad with warm olive oil, Parmesan polenta squares with Romesco sauce, chili relleno casserole and roasted sweet bell pepper crème brûlée. The class costs $40. To register, call 919-929-7133 or go to southernseason.com.

More information: nctomatoman.weebly.com.

Attention, pottery fans

Pittsboro potter Mark Hewitt and his wife, Carol, are hosting their third annual Summer Pots & Pizza Party from 5-8 p.m. June 28.

For pottery fans, this is a chance to purchase Hewitt’s popular pottery at a 10 percent discount. The Pittsboro potter was a recent finalist for the rare craft fellowship award by The Balvenie distillery, a famous producer of single malt scotch.

For food lovers, the party includes wood-fired pizza, hummus, salad, cheese, desserts, cocktails and nonalcoholic drinks.

The event also supports a cause that provides loans to local food entreprenuers and farmers. It is a fundraiser for Slow Money NC, the nonprofit that Carol Hewitt started. To date, Slow Money NC has matched 66 farmers and local food businesses with more than 130 of their neighbors who have loaned them more than $1.2 million since 2010.

An additional 20 percent from all pottery sales will be donated to the nonprofit.

The event is at W.M. Hewitt Pottery, 424 Johnny Burke Road, Pittsboro.

Tickets cost $25 in advance or $30 at the door. Children 10 and younger get in free.

More information and tickets: nando.com/potspizza.

Talk about Black Mountain College’s farm

Visiting scholar David Silver will speak at 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. June 30 at the Hunt library about the founding of the farm at Black Mountain College, near Asheville.

Silver, an associate professor at the University of San Francisco, is a scholar-in-residence at the N.C. State University Libraries this summer.

Silver will talk about Black Mountain College’s student-initiated, largely student-led farm, which was founded in 1934. Silver will share “his recent research that dispels some often-held misconceptions about both the farm and the College itself,” according a flier about the event.

The event is free and open to the public. It will be held at James B. Hunt Jr. Library, Commons Wall stairs, 1070 Partners Way, Raleigh. For information about directions and parking, visit lib.ncsu.edu/parking.

This story was originally published June 26, 2015 at 6:48 AM with the headline "More NC Tomatoman events."