by Agatha | Dec 15, 2017 | Organic Farming
All photos taken at Gabe’s farm in Lake Lure, courtesy of Adrian Etheridge Photography Best in Show Congratulations to Farm Beginnings graduate Gabriel Noard for winning the 2018 Farm Bureau Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge for Best Farm Startup! His...
by Agatha | Dec 22, 2016 | Organic Farming
I’ve been thinking a great deal about the concept and practice of holding space. What does it mean to push back the walls of time and place? To carve out a parcel for emotions, for discomfort, for disagreement and heartache and the emotions that are too wild and unruly to be parsed and named? Perhaps what I love about these events–besides the wonderful, wild women and the farmer’s feast–is the space held. Space for the joys and woes and jokes that fellow women in agriculture just get, instinctively understand and feel bone-broth deep.
We hope you can join us at our next gathering, so we can add you to our growing list of fellow Women in Ag.
by Agatha | Jun 6, 2016 | Events & Programs, Organic Home Growing, Organic Living
Share this post… Jim Smith is passionate about food. For the past thirty years he’s been a farmer, consultant, landscaper, coordinator, and founder of all sorts of projects, both in and around the Western NC mountains as well as nationally and internationally. In...
by Agatha | Feb 15, 2016 | Organic Farming, Organic Home Growing
Share this post… Black History Month. Beyoncé’s Superbowl Half-time Show. The Black Lives Matter campaign. These recent events have been shaping my intentions with my AmeriCorps service. I was recently fortunate to dive into a deeper conversation with people of...
by Agatha | Oct 4, 2013 | Organic Living
Dear Meredith, Here I sit browsing the June/July issue of The Appalachian Voice and came across an interview with two folks from the OGS. In it there is a recipe for garlic soap spray, supposedly the executive director’s favorite. One of the ingredients is...