Farmer Authors

  1. 2024 Catalog: Innovating for Our Green Future Part 3

    Return to part 2 of our 2024 catalog series: innovating for our green future. PATRICK BROWN (@hempfinityus)  Located in southeast Warren County, North Carolina, the Brown Family Farm has been growing in the community since 1865. Byron Brown was a first-generation timber and livestock farmer, followed by his son Grover Brown in 1931 who established an orchard and raised grain...
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  2. 2024 Catalog: Innovating for Our Green Future Part 2

    Return to part 1 of our 2024 Catalog Series: Innovating for Our Green Future. 2024 Catalog: Innovating for Our Green Future Part 2 RODALE INSTITUTE MIDWEST ORGANIC CENTER (@rodaleinstitute)  The Midwest Organic Center (MOC) located in Marion, Iowa is Rodale Institute’s flagship Regional Resource Center in the U.S. The Center at Etzel Sugar Grove Farm operates as an organic research...
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  3. 2024 Catalog: Innovating for Our Green Future Part 1

    2024 Catalog: Innovating for Our Green Future Part 1  Innovation is an important part of farming and gardening and is an ethos that is reflected in our natural world. Here at High Mowing, we've spent years celebrating the collaborative relationship between human ingenuity and ecological adaptation. It is the union of these two creative forces that gives us the tools...
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  4. 2023 Catalog Theme - The Future: Let's Plan(t) It Part 3

    Return to part 2 of our 2023 catalog series- the future: let's plan(t) it Nivek Anderson-Brown Leaf and Bean Farm in Lawrenceville, Virginia Nivek Anderson-Brown and her family realized in 2018 that they no longer wanted to live in the city. They purchased land in Lawrenceville, Virginia and a homestead was born. “We went all in, packed up everything, relocated...
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  5. 2023 Catalog - The Future: Let's Plan(t) It Part 2

    Return to part 1 of our 2023 catalog series- The Future: Let's Plan(t) It Amber Paige Home Gardener in Wilmington, North Carolina Amber Paige is a gardener in Wilmington, North Carolina and the creator of Black Girls Gardening, an online gardening community of Black women who have found joy and nourishment from growing their own food. When Amber started Black...
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  6. 2023 Catalog - The Future: Let's Plan(t) It Part 1

    Few experiences are more rewarding and challenging than stewarding plants through the variables of a living world. With seeds in our hands, we hold time capsules of possibility. The success of harvest rests in our ability to adapt and learn each season, and in our willingness to plant in the face of uncertainty. The crops we sow are already blooming in our mind’s eye long...
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  7. Sales Reps Favorite Summer Recipes

    The harvests are coming in strong and there’s a little bit of everything from fresh tomatoes and carrots to herbs and alliums. The summer growing season is an amazing time to eat and share a special meal with the ones you love. Here at High Mowing, eating is a big deal. Most of our staff have farms and gardens of...
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  8. Best Practices for Long Term Seed Storage

    As growers, we map out our season in late fall and early winter and, by the time planting season rolls around, things can change. From one season to the next, we may find ourselves holding onto more seeds than we are able to get into the ground. Some farmers and gardeners have even had to cancel their growing seasons all...
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  9. Growing Great Organic Corn

    There are few things that truly celebrate the summer sun more than a fresh harvested ear of sweet corn. This precious treat, along with the dent, milling and popcorns, is a true nod to what the summer heat and thunderstorms can bring. Corn is a warm-season tender annual that requires high soil fertility to produce uniform ears. Considered a cereal...
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  10. Beneficials That Help You Grow

    When it comes to growing crops, it is easy to look around at all of the living creatures in and around your growing space with suspicion and worry. While it's true, there are many organisms that become pests on farms and in the garden, there are multitudes of other beings that naturally occur in our bioregions that bring many benefits...
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