by sahcadmin | Aug 28, 2017 | Farmer Incubator Program, Our Community Farm
We welcome Will and Savannah Salley of Headwaters Market Garden, new vegetable producers on our Community Farm. Their operation focuses on growing seasonal mixed vegetables and culinary herbs. Will and Savannah recently returned to the Carolinas after living in Maui,...
by sahcadmin | Apr 12, 2017 | Farmer Incubator Program, Our Community Farm
The hearty pineywoods cattle on our Community Farm have interesting personality quirks, according to farmer Gina Raicovich. The herd has been growing, with eight cow-calf pairs currently thriving. Gina has diversifed her Sparrow Hill Farm agricultural enterprise and...
by sahcadmin | Jan 21, 2015 | Farmer Incubator Program, Our Community Farm
Matt Coffay and Casara Logan of Second Spring Market Garden are in the house! The greenhouse, that is. We want to send a big welcome to these first vegetable producers in our new Farmer Incubator Program, and a thank you to all the volunteers who helped put up...
by sahcadmin | Dec 10, 2014 | Farmer Incubator Program, Farmland Conservation, Our Community Farm
If you have ever visited a nursery or a commercial farm, you have probably seen large “hoop houses” stretching out sometimes as far as the eye can see. Without these structures, farmers would be limited to growing only during the warm season, thus...
by sahcadmin | Nov 19, 2014 | Farmer Incubator Program, Our Community Farm
Last weekend, we welcomed Gina Raicovich and her herd of Pineywoods cattle to our Community Farm in Alexander, NC. Gina started and managed the 60-acre educational University Farm at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, and is now branching out in her own...
