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A Way of Life Farm
A Way of Life Farm fosters healthy people, healthy economy, and healthy ecology through food production. With a crew of two farmers, four apprentices, two children, and extended family, we grow Certified Organic vegetables, strawberries, blueberries, and pasture-raised pork for sale to farmers’ market, CSA, and restaurant customers. This commercia…
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Grassroots Farm & Dairy
We run a small-scale sheep dairy just outside Marshall and currently sell raw sheep milk, Grade A sheep milk yogurt, labneh, lamb, sheepskins and wool bedding at three weekly tailgate markets in Asheville and Brevard. We also sell raw milk through a herdshare program for on-farm and in town pick ups. We have about 50 sheep on the farm except for la…
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Eagle Feather Organic Farms
We seek and accept apprentices year round and are looking for special people passionate about growing woodland botanicals. Eagle Feather Organic Farms is a twenty-eight year old farm growing medicinal plants and trees. We provide opportunities to learn about North Carolina woodland nurseries and the marketing of herbs as finished products.
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Becki’s Bounty
I purchased the property in year 2000 and began gardening there in 2008. The property has two houses, a small cottage and a duplex. I operate the business from 1/2 of the duplex. This is a large urban garden with 6000 row feet of vegetable production and about 50 berry bushes. It is a designated a market garden according to the town of Black Mountain…
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Mountain Gardens
Mountain Gardens is a 40+ year botanical garden project on 5 acres featuring the largest collection of native Appalachian and Chinese medicinal herbs in the Eastern US, organically grown at the foot of the Black Mountains in Western North Carolina. Our specialties include: native (Southern Appalachian) and oriental medicinal herbs, wild foods, perenn…
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For more information on this program, please contact Avi Li, Programs Coordinator at avi@organicgrowersschool.org
OGS Farmer Programs are made possible by our farmer network and our funding partners: CLIF bar Family Foundation, Southern Sustainable Agriculture, Research and Education UNFI Foundation, WNC Bridge Foundation, Harry Chapin Foundation, Walnut Cove, New Visions, and USDA Rural Development. Our Growth Partners (year-round program support) are: Carolina Farm Credit, Earth Tools, Buchi, Living Web Farms, Gaia Herbs and Chelsea Green Publishing. Our Media Sponsors are WNCW, Asheville FM and BPR. .