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Complete Seed Starter – Newbie Gardener Giveaway!
Are you new to organic gardening and overwhelmed by where to start? Excited to start your own garden and grow food for your family, but have little gardening experience? Check out our exciting new giveaway! We’re giving away TWO different … Continue reading
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High Mowing Organic Seeds – A different kind of seed company….
We are pleased to present our latest video explaining just what it is that makes High Mowing Organic Seeds a different kind of seed company. We are proud of the work we do, the seeds we offer, and the causes … Continue reading
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Myanmar’s Floating Gardens and Golden Buddhas: Winter Farmer Travel (Part II)
This article is a follow up to Becky’s January article, Trading in Ski Boots for Sandals: Winter Adventures for Farmers (Part 1) in which she wrote about the role that travel plays in her career as a farmer. She … Continue reading
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Readers’ Tips on Efficiencies in the Garden and on the Farm
A few weeks ago we asked our readers to submit their tips and tricks they use to increase their efficiency in their gardens or on their farms. What a wonderful and useful collection of tips we received! We’ve gathered them … Continue reading
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The Seed Future We Want to See
There is an abundant future out there waiting for us to say yes to it. It is filled with self-sufficient communities growing their own food and sharing with neighbors. It is filled with non-genetically engineered seeds. Seeds that are adapted … Continue reading
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Trading in Ski Boots for Sandals: Winter Adventures for Farmers (Part 1)
Becky Maden is the Assistant Farm Manager at Intervale Community Farm (ICF), a thriving member-owned CSA farm in its 21st season of growing organic produce in Burlington, Vermont. Becky has worked on several diverse vegetable farms throughout the country and … Continue reading
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Nels’ Savoyed Cabbage Delight
A recipe inspired my uncle Steve, once a fine dining chef in and around Seattle. I perused the assortment of bounty in the HMS produce fridge and found: two leeks and a few heads of Famosa F1 cabbage. I called … Continue reading
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Trial by Farmer: On-Farm Variety Trialing at the Intervale Community Farm
Becky Maden is the Assistant Farm Manager at Intervale Community Farm (ICF), a thriving member-owned CSA farm in its 21st season of growing organic produce in Burlington, Vermont. Becky has worked on several diverse vegetable farms throughout the country and … Continue reading
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Our new 2013 catalog is hot off the press!
Our new 2013 catalog has just arrived at our warehouse and we’re very excited! We’re offering over 650 varieties this year – with 73 new varieties! High Mowing moved the printing of our catalog back to Vermont this fall after … Continue reading
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Organic Salad Mixes – Growing the Perfect Combination
For many farmers, salad mix is the bread and butter of their market sales. But perhaps that isn’t the right metaphor to use for a group so devoted to their vegetables. Better to say that for many farmers, salad mix … Continue reading
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