The WNC Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training (WNC CRAFT) is a farmer network dedicated to training the next generation of farmers by building community, collective education, networking, and support. There is a place for every level of farmer in CRAFT,...
: Dallas is new Farrmer Programs Coordinator at OGS who is working in partnership with Certified Naturally Grown, a grassroots organization that centers farmers’ control for the standards of their products. Dallas is responsible for facilitating and implementing a...
Spring and summer in the Appalachians involve planting specific fruits, vegetables, and herbs such as corn, beans, broccoli, and brussel sprouts. If you have opted to grow these organically, there is good news to discover. Studies have shown that organic produce...
Share this post… The first CRAFT farm tour of the year brought us to Goldfinch Gardens, a Certified Naturally Grown and low till farm outside of Burnsville, NC. Cedar and Ben have been farming small-scale vegetables in the South Toe Valley since 2010. Since then, they...
When Warren Lee applied to the Organic Growers School’s year long farmer training, Farm Beginnings, they spoke about the pull and draw of their family land in Roswell, Georgia as a motivating factor. It was their great grandfather’s land and had been passed down in...
Photo: Narcissus (daffodils), Flying Cloud Farm Our creative farmers in WNC grow a huge variety of crops. These farmers satisfy specialty and wholesale markets and the diversity of customers we have here in the mountains. If you’re eating seasonally,...