by Nicole DelCogliano | May 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
Meet the Salleys Will and Savannah Salley of Headwaters Market Garden are entering their second season as farmers, growing a mix of vegetables and specialty greens. They are also students in Organic Growers School’s (OGS) Farm Beginnings® Farmer...
by Nicole DelCogliano | Mar 20, 2018 | Community, OGS News, Organic Farming, Sustainability
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...
by Nicole DelCogliano | Feb 8, 2018 | Farm Network, Finances, Organic Farming, Sustainability
On January 8th and 9th farmers gathered at the Burnsville Town Center to spend two days on finances in our yearly Holistic Financial Planning workshop! This is an area most farm businesses tend to avoid, instead preferring to drool over seed catalogs for the upcoming...
by Nicole DelCogliano | Dec 20, 2017 | Community, Farm Network, OGS News, Organic Farming, Organic Living, Sustainability, Uncategorized
After a long season of marketing, 2017 is wrapping up! Most of our regional markets stop for a few months and don’t start back up til early April. Some farmers continue to do winter markets (Asheville City Market and the YMCA in Woodwin), but many take the few...
by Nicole DelCogliano | Dec 19, 2017 | Community, Farm Network, Finances, OGS News, Organic Farming, Sustainability
The Organic Growers School will be offering a 2-day workshop, Holistic Financial Planning on January 8-9th, 2018 for farmers at the Burnsville Town Center in Burnsville, NC. Farmers don’t get into farming because they want to manage numbers and money, but in order to...
