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WNC 2025 Winter Vegetable Conference Registration Is Open

12/16/2024 - Mark your calendars for the annual Winter Vegetable Conference and NC Tomato Growers Meeting. It will be held at the Crowne Plaza Resort in Asheville on February 19-2025. Last year we…

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Reflections on 2024 from the NC Alternative Crops & Organics Program Team

12/12/2024 - We never could have predicted all that 2024 would bring to those of us living in western North Carolina! But our program team is resilient, resourceful, energetic, and eager to help…

Flier for the 75th anniverary of the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center

75th Anniversary Celebration Horticulture Research Field Day!

7/24/2024 - It's almost here! The 75th anniversary of the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center in Mills River, NC. Join us for this field day and celebration of the wonderful…

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Who Will Buy My Herbs? a Grower-Buyer Event on June 1st in WNC

5/24/2023 - Join us for our springtime medicinal herb grower and buyer event. We will have a few new buyers this time including Herb Pharm! Here are the details. Register now!When: 1 pm to 4 pmWhere:…

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NCDA&CS Supporting the NC Emerging Hops Industry

9/6/2022 - The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDA&CS;) has been very supportive of our hops research program with grants offered through the New and Emerging Crops…

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Late July Hemp Pics-NC Alternative Crops & Organics

7/29/2021 - It is a very beautiful, but very hot day in western North Carolina. And research associate, Margaret Bloomquist, was checking out our fiber hemp research plots at the Mountain Research…