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Conference flier for the 2025 Southern Ohio Forest Farming Conference featuring Jeanine Davis as keynote speaker

Join Us at the Forest Farming Conference in Southern Ohio in Late September

9/11/2025 - In just a few weeks, there is going to be a wonderful, small forest farming conference at the beautiful United Plant Savers Botanical Sanctuary. This will be an immersive, weekend-long…

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We Are Hiring! NC Alternative Crops & Organics Program

2/26/2024 - Our program has FOUR positions we are currently trying to fill. If you have always thought that working for the NC Alternative Crops and Organics Program with NC State University would be…

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May in the Mountains-Forest Farming, Fun Jobs, and More

5/12/2022 - It is springtime in the mountains of western North Carolina and the staff in my program and at our research and extension center are very busy. There are a lot of exciting things going on…

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Forest Farming Webinar Series Being Offered

2/7/2022 - The Appalachian Beginning Forest Farmers Coalition is offering a series of five free early evening webinars on a variety of forest farming enterprises. These webinars will be offered at…

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Videos From the 2020 Goldenseal Summit Now Available!

3/6/2021 - In 2020, United Plant Savers, the NC Ginseng Association, and Living Web Farms put on a virtual event with experts from industry, government, academia, and non-profits to discuss the…

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July Update From the NC Alternative Crops & Organics Program

7/28/20 - Written by Margaret Bloomquist, Research Associate, and Katie Learn, Research Assistant in the North Carolina Alternative Crops and Organics ProgramConsistent 85-65° temperature splits and…

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Wild-Harvesting Medicinal Herbs-It's Still the Norm for Many Products

(Originally published on November 15, 2017; reviewed and updated on 11/21/2022) A large component of our NC Alternative Crops and Organics Program is devoted to medicinal herbs. Many of these are…

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More Opportunities to Learn About Growing Medicinal Herbs and Forest Farming

10/25/2022 - This is an old post of a recap of a wonderful workshop. The Appalachian Beginning Forest Farmer Coalition is still going strong and we are offering many workshop opportunities throughout…

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Life of a Forest Farmer-in the Spring

By Margaret Bloomquist, NC Alternative Crops and Organics Program, Department of Horticultural Science, NC State University on May 1, 2017.Reviewed by Jeanine Davis on May 3, 2022.The ups and down of…

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What Was Happening With Medicinal Herbs in WNC in 2015 and now!

8/15/2022 - Update. Almost seven years have passed since Margaret wrote this article. She is now a research associate and is responsible for all the medicinal herb efforts in our program. Be sure to…