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Press Release: 2018 Earth Day Film & Panel
Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry - 5th Annual Earth Day Film and Panel Asheville, NC. Organic Growers School is pleased to announce a screening of the award-winning documentary Look and See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry for the 5th annual Earth...
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Farm Beginnings Applications Now Open!
Organic Growers School and Growing Rural Opportunities Partner on offering Farm Beginnings® Farmer Training in Western NC. - Applications Open! Organic Growers School’s Farm Beginnings® Farmer Training is partnering with Polk county’s Growing Rural Opportunities...
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WNC CRAFT Farmer Round Table – Low-Till Farming in WNC
Low-Till and No-Till Farming have been on the minds of many of our WNC CRAFT Farmers over the past few years. In short, no-till and low-till farming models aim to disturb the soil structure as little as possible. So traditional moldboard plowing is out in...
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WNC Farmer goes to Singing Frogs Farm Learns Low-Till Techniques
Through a Continuing Farmer Education Award granted from Organic Growers School, Holly Whitesides, CRAFT Member farmer with Against the Grain Farm in Zionville, NC, had the opportunity to attend Singing Frogs Farm in Sebastopol, CA in October 2017, and learn about their no-till farming model. Read more about her experience below.
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