Growing A Thriving Garden in Western North Carolina
08Mar
Growing in Western North Carolina can be a lesson in patience and perseverance.
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Occupy the Food Supply Today!
Today is the Occupy the Food Supply day of action. This is a global, DIY event meant to draw attention to the growing corporate control of our food.
5 Ways to Protect Farmers from Monsanto
30Jan
On Tuesday, January 31st Manhattan Federal Court Judge Naomi Buchwald will decide if organic farmers can protect themselves against GMO pusher Monsanto.
Garden Blogs for Winter Reading: The Local Edition
26Jan
To feed your winter garden dreams there is a growing bounty of garden related blogs out there.
10 New Year's Resolutions for the Garden
28Dec
It’s the time for looking back and looking forward, the threshold of a new year. Gardening is an exercise in optimism, especially in the winter when everything is still possible.
Garden Blogs for Winter Reading
26Nov
The holidays are upon us. The weather has been glorious in WNC but it won’t last. We’re heading in to the cold, quiet time of gardening.
Tips for Your Winter Vegetable Garden
20Nov
There are four basic ways to eat from your garden throughout the winter: Plant hardy plants, choose “good-keeper” variety vegetables for the summer/fall garden and store them correctly, preserve your produce, or try your hand at growing inside!
Why is Sow True against GMOs?
30Oct
Why is Sow True Seed against the use of GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms)?
Celebrate Winter Squash
26Oct
We sell many members of this family: several varieties of pumpkins and many winter squash (C. maxima, C. mixta, C. moschata, C. pepo). Most take 75 to 120 days to mature. Here are a few to consider for next year’s garden
Planting Flowers in the Fall
28Sep
Nature plants most of her seeds in the Fall. In the wild, flowers bloom and ripen all season.
Fall Harvest Time
16Sep
Sheaves of corn, hay rides and pumpkin patches are popping up on roadsides. Many things in the garden are ready to harvest. But when in the growth cycle is the best time?
Frost Dates
14Sep
Its harvest time and the nights are getting cooler. The average 1st frost date is October 23rd in Asheville according to the NC Extension. Brevard and Boone are October 8th, Charlotte is November 5th.