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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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
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...
Living on the Land Learning Circles
Develop Land-Use, Site-Design, & Land-Based Observation Skills Equal parts workshop, site-visit, mentoring experience, gathering of growers, and design session, the Living on the Land Learning Circles will take place monthly (from April to June 2019) on a farm or...
Organic Educator of the Year Award 2019: Ira Wallace
Each year at the OGS Spring Conference, we recognize a local leader for their dedication, steadfastness, civic commitment, and responsibility with regards to organic education. This award honors the individuals in our midst who have made ongoing and important...
WNC CRAFT Farmer Round Table – Let’s Talk About Taxes! w/Wallace Souther
We had a very exciting (yes, it actually was exciting!) second WNC CRAFT Farmer Round Table, called “Let’s Talk About Taxes!” And we did. What are Farmer Round Tables? They are open, farmer to farmer discussions geared toward a specific advanced farming topic....
