Join Alyssa Archer for a summer morning you will always remember: a refreshing one-hour yoga session beginning at 6:00 am by the fig orchard at the Spruill Conservation Farm. Bring your mat. Alyssa Archer is a certified Yoga Teacher and licensed Massage Therapist with a heart for helping others feel at home in their bodies. Since 2019, she has shared yoga throughout northeastern North Carolina, guiding practices that support presence, ease, and connection. Inspired by a personal journey that began in high school and led her all the way to India to experience the origins of yoga, she went on to complete her 200 hour training in Tennessee. In addition to her weekly classes at Adinkra Yoga Studios in Moyock, Alyssa brings sound baths and intentional gatherings to markets, festivals, and spaces across the region, and also offers private yoga and sound sessions for individuals and small groups.

Saturday, August 9: Enjoy an all-terrain nature run! This is one of the most (or the most!) beautiful runs in Eastern North Carolina. You will sprint along a grassy path, follow mossy trails, jump over roots, enjoy breezes along the waterfront, glide around the fig orchard, and more. If it has rained, wear shoes that can get wet- there may be puddles. A free fig pancake breakfast awaits you and your family at the finish line, and enjoy a dip or a paddle in the Albemarle Sound. Race starts at 7:30; arrive by 7:00 to have time to park and get to the starting line. Runners will start in waves according to your most recent 5K timing that you will tell us in the questions below. Prizes for overall winners, and by age group: 17 and under; 18-29; 30-45; 46-59; 60 and up. T-Shirts for the first 25 participants who sign up, and swag bag for all pre-registered participants.

Saturday, August 9: Enjoy an all-terrain nature run! This is one of the most (or the most!) beautiful runs in Eastern North Carolina. You will sprint along a grassy path, follow mossy trails, jump over roots, enjoy breezes along the waterfront, glide around the fig orchard, and more. If it has rained, wear shoes that can get wet- there may be puddles. A free fig pancake breakfast awaits you and your family at the finish line, and enjoy a dip or a paddle in the Albemarle Sound. Race starts at 7:30; arrive by 7:00 to have time to park and get to the starting line. Runners will start in waves according to your most recent 5K timing that you will tell us in the questions below. Prizes for overall winners, and by age group: 17 and under; 18-29; 30-45; 46-59; 60 and up.

Grants entry to the event with free parking where designated. No entry fee but donations encouraged: Free fig samples and other foods. Live music provided by Crabpot Creek, local band. Cooking demonstration with Jamie Davis from The Hackney Farm to Fork Restaurant and Cocktail Bar in Washington, NC; Activities for children-bring clothes that can get wet and messy. Bring your homemade fig preserves, fig cakes, or any other type of edible made with fig (sweet or savory! Includes sauces) to enter the Bake-off / Cook-off competition at 3:00 pm.. Be creative! Judging by professional chefs. Short presentations about local history and related topics beginning at 1:00. Note: sign up for yourself, and there is a question at the end If you are bringing children (age 17 and under) with you.

Are you able to help out, either Saturday or Sunday? …or maybe the week before? Tell us more in the questions below. Free campsite available for volunteers for both days.