If you’re starting or expanding your farm business, we offer a path to success through training, networking, and support.
We provide you with quality gardening education, ideas for inspiration, and connections to other growers in Western NC.
Our classes, workshops, and services will inspire you, build your confidence, and support you in creating your sustainable life.
Learn to farm, garden, and live organically through our hands-on training, workshops, conferences, and partnerships.
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Organic Growers School is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization
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I can’t fully express my appreciation for the passion conveyed in the [Spring] Gardening series. Especially regarding the creation of a healthy, vibrant earth through gardening and by redefining our relationship with nature/soil. Thank you, thank you.
I love the OGS Spring Conference. Thank you all for your hard work to make it happen. I look forward to it every year and always come away inspired and ready to keep working!
What I love most about CRAFT is the networking with other farmers and visiting working farms. The sharing of information between farmers is like in no other industry. In farming, it seems, competitiveness turns into collaboration and cooperation.
Recent Blog Posts
Irrigating Vegetables & Livestock at Bluebird Farm – WNC CRAFT
The WNC CRAFT farmer network visited Bluebird Farm where Marie and William have been running raising vegetables and livestock for going on ten years. They raise hogs, piglets, laying hens, and beef cattle in addition to managing 3.5 acres of diversified vegetable...
Social Justice & Agriculture Twilight Talk – WNC CRAFT
OGS is a historically white-led organization, comprised of mostly white leaders and constituents. We are currently doing racial equity and social justice training, examining how white supremacy culture shows up in our work, and acknowledging the impact of dominant...
Intensive Vegetable Production & Alternative Energy w/Thatchmore Farm – WNC CRAFT
Thatchmore Farm is nestled in the mountains in Leicester, NC, with enough flat land for only one acre of intensive annual vegetable cultivation. Because the rest of the farm is on sloped acreage, the rest of the enterprise is focused on perennial fruits and...
Creating A Dog-Friendly Organic Garden
Growing your own organic food is rewarding, environmentally kind, and healthier — organic produce contains between 20% and 40% more antioxidants than conventional fruits and vegetables, NPR reports. And if you’re wondering if organic gardening can be both safe and...
Apprentice & Farm Hand Orientation w/New Roots Market Garden – WNC CRAFT
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,...
