Organic Growers School | Organic & Sustainable Agriculture

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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Testimonials

Honestly, Farm Beginnings has changed my life for the better. I am leaving the course with functional knowledge of farm business, a wealth of resources, and direction for my life. I can’t thank you all enough.

Farm Beginnings Participant

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.

Spring Gardening Participant

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!

Spring Conference Participant

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.

CRAFT Participant

Recent Blog Posts

Ask Ruth: Finding Neonicotinoid-Free Plants for Pollinator Gardens

by Ruth Gonzalez | Nov 18, 2014 | Organic Home Growing

Dear Ruth, I have heard neonicotinoids are bad for bees. What are neonicotinoids and how can I avoid buying plants that have been treated with them? Lucy Asheville, NC Dear Lucy, Pollinators are battling Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and a complex mix of issues....

Ask Tom: Spring Aphid Control with Beneficial Insects

by Tom Elmore | Nov 17, 2014 | Organic Farming, Organic Home Growing

Dear Tom – I seem to have trouble with aphids in cold frame crops in March and April each year. Do you have suggestions? Thanks Bill in Old Fort Dear Bill – Aphids are a pest for us too. We see them in early lettuce and on tomatoes in our heated greenhouse. On lettuce...

Ask Tom: Tomatoes for Winter

by Tom Elmore | Oct 13, 2014 | Organic Farming

Dear Tom, You sell a lot of tomatoes. How do you can them when so much is going on in the middle of the season? Paul in Pawpaw Dear Paul – I will leave to Extension the details of the canning process but I will be glad to share a few ideas that help us save some time...

Ask Ruth: Why are My Blueberries Defoliating?

by Ruth Gonzalez | Oct 13, 2014 | Organic Home Growing

Dear Ruth, A question on my blueberry bushes. I scratched in some Hollytone the other day as my bushes are forming tons of berries and then I watered well. Now I have some dead branches and yellowed leaves and lots of leaves have fallen off? I have completely bare...

Women Grow

by OGS | Oct 6, 2014 | OGS News, Organic Farming

150 years ago 90% of the population farmed. The same industrial revolution that promised to “liberate” us from rural life and physical toil has created more problems than it has solved. Chemically-based methods, factory-farming, and GMO’s are compromising our health...