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
Ask Ruth: Why are My Blueberries Defoliating?
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
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...
Barriers to Cooking & Food Literacy
Two recent articles galvanized our thoughts on the issue of home-cooking. Is it worthwhile? Financially? Socially? Healthfully? Our facebook fans had some thoughtful things to say on this subject. Let’s Stop Idealizing the Home-Cooked Family Dinner By Amanda...
Seed Saving Basics by Janisse Ray
The following is an excerpt from Janisse Ray’s award-winning book about seeds and seed saving, The Seed Underground. If you’ve ever thought saving your own seeds was too much to tackle, let Janisse provide some encouragement and inspiration. BASIC SEED SAVING by...
Interview with Janisse Ray
This interview is a reprinted with permission from The Echo, a Warren Wilson College publication. Lane Emmons, Features Editor (lemmons@wwc) on October 25, 2010, The Echo at Warren Wilson College This year’s Writer in Residence was Janisse Ray. Ray is a writer,...
