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Arthur Morgan School
Arthur Morgan School is a unique boarding and day school for young adults ages 12-15. Students and staff actively participate in the work of the farm. We value simplicity and sustainability in our work. Therefore, we use organic and low/no-input methods. We grow over 50 varieties of vegetables, fruits and herbs across an acre and keep chickens, turke…
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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, beef cattle, dairy goats, pigs, and hens. We have one acre in intensive vegetable production that produces over seven thousand pounds of fresh vegetabl…
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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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Green Toe Ground
The main body of our farm sits on a bend in the South Toe River. We are definitely not the first ones to coax a living from the sandy loam. We are always reminded of those who came before as we pick points and pottery from our soils, some thousands of years old. We grow six acres of Biodynamic vegetables in a scattering of soil types and fields, …
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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 Sera Deva, Director of Programs & Systems Design at sera@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. .