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Camp Celo Farm
Camp Celo is a summer farm camp for children ages 8 - 12. Our program focuses on simplicity, equality, and care for our environment. We have a dairy cow, dairy goats, pigs, and hens. We have one acre in intensive vegetable production that produces over seven thousand pounds of fresh vegetables each summe…
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Bluebird Farm
Bluebird Farm is a diversified vegetable and livestock farm located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and in its 11th year of production. Marie and William believe that food should be grown with biological methods that improve the health of the land, plants, and animals while su…
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Goldfinch Gardens
Goldfinch Gardens is a three acre production vegetable farm in Celo, NC. In operation since 2007, we grow specialty vegetables for the high-end restaurants of Asheville and the surrounding area. In addition, we operate an online CSA to get our produce onto the plates of our neighbors. Using three greenhouses, we are able to grow and market from March…
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Grassroots Farm & Dairy
Our farm is 25 acres of hill pasture in Madison County, about 30 minutes outside of Asheville. We are in our 3rd year of production and this coming year we will be selling dairy (raw sheep milk, Grade A sheep milk yogurt and feta), lamb, wool products and sheepskins at 2 local tailgate markets. We raise a total of 75 East Friesian sheep: we milk 40 …
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Root Cause Farm (formerly The Lord’s Acre)
Nonprofit Garden / Mini Farm Seeks one Full Season Intern late March / early April – October 2020 and Summer Interns. We are looking for highly motivated & committed interns to assist in the daily & ever changing needs of our nonprofit garden project. Root Cause Farm, started 12 years ago as The Lord’s Acre and continues to be a nonprofit donatio…
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For more information on this program, please contact Sera Deva, Farmer Programs & Conference Coordinator at farmer-programs@organicgrowersschool.org
OGS Farmer Programs are made possible by our farmer network and our funding partners: USDA Rural Business Development Program, Community Foundation of WNC, CLIF Bar Family Foundation, UNFI Foundation, Harry Chapen Foundation, WNC Bridge Foundation, USDA Southern Extension Risk Management, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education. Our Growth Partners (year-round program support) are: Carolina Farm Credit, Earth Tools, Biltmore Company, Buchi, Living Web Farms, and Chelsea Green Publishing. Our Media Sponsors are Hendersonville Community Co-op, and WNCW.