The man called Nature’s Champion, Dr. B.W. Wells, spent his retirement years with his wife on an old farm he renamed Rockcliff Farm perched above Zeagle’s Rock on a bend in the Neuse River, and thanks to his students, friends and those who admire him, the farm remains an oasis even today. Once a year the B.W. Wells Association opens the gates and invites families and individuals to spend the day learning about 19th Century farming techniques and hiking through the several trails. This year Heritage Day will be held Saturday, March 28, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be guided hikes about geology, ecology, wild flowers, Capital Trees and birding. Children will learn how to build a baseball or a kite. The farm is at 1620 Bent Road. Take N.C. 98 to Stony Hill Road, go north on Stony Hill until you reach Stony Hill Baptist Church

The Wake Forest Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department will sponsor a free Special Needs Resource Fair Saturday, April 25, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Richland Creek Community Church, 3229 Burlington Mills Road. The event will include many professional vendors which specialize in providing services to children and adults with special needs. The fair will offer local families the opportunity to learn about dozens of programs, services, products and resources in one location. Organizations and businesses that provide those services or resources are invited to apply as a vendor at no cost. For more information, contact Recreation Program Superintendent Monica Lileton at 919-435-9563 or mlileton@wakeforestnc.gov.  

It is time to clean out your bookshelves and share those books you enjoyed to make room for more. It is the annual used book sale sponsored by the Friends of Wake Forest Library. The sale will be held Saturday, May 2, in the Ledford Center at 120 South Wingate Street on the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary campus. Everyone is invited to shop from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., but Friends members can begin shopping at 8 a.m. Memberships, as low as $5 for an individual, will be available at the door from 8 a.m. and throughout the day. Please no credit cards; cash or checks only for the sale and memberships. The collection bins have been placed in 15 handy collection sites around town. Please donate recently published hardcover and paperback books in good condition as well as CDs and DVDs that are in playable and good condition are

If you have been a subscriber to The Wake Forest Gazette and now find you are not receiving weekly notices that the new issue is on line, the problem lies in the software for the paper’s email service, Mailchimp. If a subscriber’s inbasket is full or if there are other reasons why the email would not accept the Gazette notice, it will be listed as bumped. If that condition continues, Mailchimp will list that subscriber as unsubscribed and stop sending notices. To remedy the situation, if you want to receive the weekly notices, please re-subscribe.

Last week Gabie was able to bring spinach and other spring greens to the Wake Forest Farmers Market, which is still in its winter hours, 10 a.m. to noon, in Renaissance Plaza on Brooks Street. The market’s website has been updated, and you can find it at www.wakeforestfarmersmarket.org. With spring weather finally here, there are more vendors who will be at the market. The lineup includes Triple B Farm with its grass-fed beef, pork, lamb and chicken as well as bacon, sausage, brats and more. Brogden’s Produce will be selling both white and red sweet potatoes as well as spinach and kale. There is a new vendor, Bolling Fog Farm, and its owner, Jennifer Myers will sell chicken eggs and team up with Chickcharney Farm to sell micro greens, pet grass and wheat grass. Walk Ahead Farms will have chicken and duck eggs (pre-orders recommended) along with different cuts of

*A special edition of Writer’s Night in the Forest on Thursday, March 26, will focus on Wake Forest’s history from Dr. Calvin Jones, who provided the name for the college and later the town, to today’s growth trends. There is no charge for the event in the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre on Brooks Street that begins at 6:30 p.m. See more in the article in this week’s issue. *The Wake Forest Farmers Market will be open in Renaissance Plaza on Brooks Street from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 28. *The Easter Bunny plans to bring a big load of eggs to town – more than 10,000 – for the annual Easter Egg Hunt Saturday, March 28, at E. Carroll Joyner Park. The hunts, organized by the ages of the participants, will begin at 10 a.m., and there will be an Egg-ceptional Egg Hunt at 11:30 a.m. for children