Holiday Markets bring diverse products from farmers
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...
Farmers and Money: Holistic Financial Planning
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...
Managing Farm Labor Workshop: How to Structure Labor on the Small Farm
“Managing Farm Labor: How to Structure Labor on the Small Farm” workshop Farming on a small farm requires significant labor, not just from the farmers themselves, but from others as well. Sometimes these are family members, especially on small farms, but often...
Specialties of Your Local Farm: Find Farms using the OGS Farm Network
It’s important to buy from farms whose practices you know and support. This is why farms listed on the OGS Farm Network are vetted for their engagement in the local community, their commitment to educating the next generation of farmers, and their use of sustainable...