Events for Asheville homeowners
Home shows, tours, workshops, and county services across Asheville and Western North Carolina. Every date here is checked against the organizer's own page — and past events drop off automatically.
Worth planning around
Home shows & expos
WNC Build & Remodel Expo
March 6–7, 2027 · Sat 10 AM–6 PM · Sun 11 AM–4 PM
- Where
- WNC Agricultural Center — Davis Arena, Gate 5
765 Boylston Hwy, Fletcher, NC 28732 - Cost
- Ticketed — online or at the venue
- Organizer
- Builders Association of the Blue Ridge Mountains
Run by the Builders Association of the Blue Ridge Mountains, this is the local trade’s own show — which means the exhibitors are largely people who work here year-round rather than a touring roster.
More than 75 exhibitors, professionally designed interior showcases, and a talk schedule that goes past the usual product pitches into financing and aging-in-place design. There’s a student doghouse competition and family activities, so it holds up as a Saturday outing rather than a chore.
The talks are the part most people skip and shouldn’t. Financing a renovation and designing a house you can still live in at 80 are the two decisions that quietly determine whether a project was worth doing, and there aren’t many other places locally where you can ask a professional about either one for free.
Timing is good too: March is early enough to book a builder for the same building season.
December 2026
Household services
Household Hazardous Waste Collection Days
Select Tuesdays, year-round · 9:00 AM–3:00 PM
- Where
- Buncombe County Landfill
85 Panther Branch Rd, Alexander, NC 28701 - Cost
- Free for Buncombe County residents
- Organizer
- Buncombe County Solid Waste
Why it's worth your time
Every renovation leaves a shelf of things you can’t put in the trash. Half-used paint and stain, deck sealer, solvents, pesticides, pool chemicals, old fluorescent tubes, automotive fluids. They sit in the garage for years because there’s nowhere obvious to take them.
Buncombe County runs free collection days at the landfill on selected Tuesdays, 9 AM to 3 PM, and it’s genuinely the easiest errand on this list. Load the garage shelf into the trunk and go.
A few things worth knowing before you drive out:
- Residents only. This is a Buncombe County service.
- Leave things in original containers where you can, so staff can identify what’s in them.
- Latex paint isn’t hazardous waste — it can be dried out with kitty litter and thrown away. Oil-based paint is a different story and belongs here.
- Call (828) 250-5462 if you’re unsure whether something qualifies.
Dates shift year to year, so confirm on the county schedule before you load up.
January 2027
Home shows & expos
North Carolina Home Show
January 16–17, 2027 · Sat 10 AM–8 PM · Sun 10 AM–5 PM
- Where
- WNC Agricultural Center
765 Boylston Hwy, Fletcher, NC 28732 - Cost
- Free with online pass · $10 at the door
- Organizer
- American Consumer Shows
Why it's worth your time
January is when most people finally admit the kitchen needs doing. This show lands right in that window, which is exactly why it’s useful: you can talk to twenty remodelers, landscapers, and design outfits in an afternoon and figure out who you actually want to call in February.
Grab the free pass online before you go. It’s $10 at the door otherwise, and the online pass takes about thirty seconds.
Come with a short list of questions rather than a vague sense that you want “something done.” Ask about lead times — a good contractor in this market is often booked out several months, and knowing that in January is what keeps a spring project on schedule. Anyone you meet is worth cross-checking against the North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors before money changes hands.
April 2027
Garden & outdoorsDates to be confirmed
Asheville Spring Herb Festival
Late April 2027 — dates to be announced · Fri & Sat 8:30 AM–5 PM · Sun 10 AM–3 PM (2026 hours)
- Where
- WNC Agricultural Center
765 Boylston Hwy, Fletcher, NC 28732 - Cost
- Free admission · free parking · free workshops
- Organizer
- WNC Herb Association
Why it's worth your time
Three days at the Ag Center, free to get in, free to park, and free workshops running the whole time. It’s a plant sale at heart — herbs, natives, starts — with growers who can tell you what actually performs in mountain soil at your elevation.
The workshops are the underrated part. Growing at 2,200 feet in Asheville is a different problem than growing in the Piedmont, and the people selling here farm in the same conditions you’re planting in.
Go early on Friday if you want first pick of anything unusual. By Sunday afternoon the good stuff is thinned out.
2027 dates hadn’t been posted as of August 2026 — the 2026 festival ran April 24–26, and it has historically landed on that late-April weekend. Check the festival site before you plan around it.
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