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.
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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
Low Till Vegetables w/Goldfinch Gardens – WNC CRAFT
The first CRAFT farm tour of the year brought us to Goldfinch Gardens, a Certified Naturally Grown and low till farm outside of Burnsville, NC. Cedar and Ben have been farming small-scale vegetables in the South Toe Valley since 2010. Since then, they have...
Student Profile: Warren Lee Farm Beginnings
When Warren Lee applied to the Organic Growers School’s year long farmer training, Farm Beginnings, they spoke about the pull and draw of their family land in Roswell, Georgia as a motivating factor. It was their great grandfather’s land and had been passed down in...
Make Comfort Foods with the Spoils from Your Garden
Comfort food not only tastes good, but it often has a physical impact on our bodies, making us happier. Not only does food that tastes good release endorphins that lift your mood, but often comfort food also has a nostalgic aspect that also makes us feel good,...
Flower Farming in Western NC
Photo: Narcissus (daffodils), Flying Cloud Farm Our creative farmers in WNC grow a huge variety of crops. These farmers satisfy specialty and wholesale markets and the diversity of customers we have here in the mountains. If you're eating seasonally, you'll notice a...
Beyond sustainability — restoring, repairing and creating resilience in our community
Reprinted, with permission, in the Mountain Xpress, Asheville, NC. Link is here. For many years, I have taught classes in the basics of sustainability called The Three-Legged Stool of Sustainability, which describes the three main principles, or pillars, of...
