High Mowing Organic Seeds

  1. Spinach Salad with Bacon Dressing

    (makes four main course salads) This is a classic salad that is hearty enough for a meal! Add some crumbled blue cheese if you like. I made this for a group of friends for dinner recently, with over wintered organic spinach from the High Mowing hoop house. Soup and bread complement this nicely. Spinach Salad 1- 1 1/2 lbs washed...
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  2. New Variety and "How-To" Organic Gardening Videos!

    We’ve created a series of short videos describing the qualities of several of the varieties we carry. We’re also working on filming more “Growing Tips” videos. We’ll be adding more videos in the future, so check back often! Variety Videos:  Cucumbers | Carrots | Beets| Lettuce Growing Tip Videos: Cucumbers – Maximizing the Canopy | Cucumbers – Using Mulch |...
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  3. High Mowing Organic Seeds’ Annual Spring Social – March 17th, 2012

    With this warm winter, our thoughts are turning to spring and the start of the new growing season! Please join us for tours of our warehouse, tours of our hoop house where we are conducting over-wintering trials, or attend a workshop in Succession Planting. At the end we'll wrap it up with a potluck dinner and slideshow! Who: Farmers and...
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  4. Organic Onions & Shallots for the Entire Season

    Alliums – onions, shallots – are a culinary staple and great to have available for the whole season – whether at your market stand or in your garden. Not only are alliums tasty, but they are also highly nutritious, believed to have anti-inflammatory, anticholesterol, anticancer, and antioxidant properties. Planting for a Long Harvest Window All alliums should be seeded at...
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  5. How High Mowing Organic Seeds Chooses Our Variety Selection

    When the seed catalogs arrive, in late autumn and on into the spring, don’t we all just love to crack them open and pour over the descriptions – visual, written or both – of all the varieties inside? If seeds represent the potential for new life and nourishment, then a seed catalog represents the blueprint of that potential. Seed catalog...
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  6. 1st Annual Seed Swap at the NOFA-VT Winter Conference!

    Many of our staff at High Mowing are headed over to Burlington this weekend to attend the NOFA-VT Winter Conference. We hope you all plan to come and bring some seed with you, because we're hosting the: 1st Annual NOFA-VT Seed Swap! When: Saturday, Feb 11th, 2012 -  7:30-9:30pm Where:4th floor of the Davis Center (next to the Dinner &...
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  7. Katie's Kitchen - Celebrating the Cabbage

    Cabbages tend to keep us Vermonters company for the duration of the long winter. Sometimes they are pickled in kimchi or sauerkraut, providing a bright, salty crispness to heavy meals. Sometimes they appear as a fresh head, harvested in the fall and still crisp beneath the outer layers months later. Try one of the recipes below to dress up those...
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  8. Well, it’s time for another round of sue Monsanto!

    This time, a group of organizations, several of which High Mowing Organic Seeds is a proud member, are suing for legal protection against Monsanto’s transgenic pollen drift. The lawsuit asks courts to protect organic farmers from transgenic contamination by GE-crops, which results in a loss of value of the products (now no longer able to be sold as organic) and...
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  9. Out of Stocks, Backorders, Delays, Oh my!

    Anyone who has a farm or garden knows that despite our best efforts, things don’t always go according to plan. Now imagine tending a garden with over 600 varieties of vegetables and flowers. The fruit of this garden is the High Mowing Organic Seeds catalog. It seems that the two things that no one wants to hear this time of the...
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  10. Excellent Tomato Varieties for High Tunnel Production

    Season extension has become standard practice among farmers and many home gardeners across the country.  Growing tomatoes in a high tunnel or hoop-house extends the season by providing protection from frost and maintaining warmer temperatures that allow for earlier harvest.  High tunnels and greenhouses also provide a protected growing environment for plants which increases the potential for higher yields and...
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